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Originally Posted by leane Oh there is no doubt that the PS3 will be the top dog graphically and it needs the blueray for the amount of detailed textures that will natrually be required for that graphics. Problem is the hardcore gamer market is much, much smaller, compare most MMPOG to WoW, that casual market is the king. Sony is betting on the shear power of their system (their show before E3 was mostly numbers, they didn't really show anything) Microsoft is betting on Sony dropping the ball and will probably price drop just before the launch to tap out people plus their better setup for online play. Nintendo is aiming for the casuals with cheap hardware and lot of games |
The demands of games are in no way driving the need for Blu-Ray's capacity. It's going in the PS3 so Sony gets mass-market uptake as soon as possible and wins the format war.
I doubt there are many games that have come close to filling a standard DVD without padding it with FMV and 6 channel soundtracks. It's all very well having bucketloads of fill rate and geometry crunching power but you still need RAM to store it. Nobody bothers streaming graphics because the seeks kill you.
