With the price of Blu-ray players dropping all the time, Sony can't rely on selling a healthy amount of PS3s by appealing to HD enthusiasts for much longer.
Rather than follow Microsoft's lead by dropping the price of the console it looks like it will be attempting to merge the future of gaming and movies by supplying them both on the same disc.The company is currently working on making the most of Blu-ray's 50GB capacity by basically burning the equivalent full-length feature film to the empty space on a game-disc, which typically only uses around 30GB.
Director of hardware marketing John Koller thinks it's the future of entertainment, saying that "We are actively pushing, and the way that we see the future is that the movie and the game are placed on the same disc. There are a lot of developers who say, we have this game based on a movie, wouldn't it be great to marry these concepts? We will definitely see this stuff this year."
Sony seems to be forgetting the fact that the vast majority of 'movie-based' games are fairly rubbish, in which case it'll be appealing to a rather small collection of fanboys for many of the titles that get chosen. Interesting idea, but not something that we'd consider particularly revolutionary.
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