Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

You're buying a PS3 for blu-ray? Heh, that's one of the main reasons I hate Sony. Blu-ray is the Betamax of this decade. I kind of forgave Sony for the Betamax fiasco and bought a PSP with yet another proprietary game format - the UMD. That too has been a colossal flop. I wanted to be able to buy movies in UMD format and watch them while I am on the road. Now since UMD support is quickly dying, I have to rip my DVDs and put them on a memory card so I can watch them on the PSP.

VHS dominated Betamax because of the price vs benefit factor. Betamax offered better video quality but was too expensive for most consumers. Blu-ray is similar. It can hold substantially more data but when games for PS3 are going to cost around $90 a pop, I can't justify the cost. HD-DVD seems like a far more logical choice.

I do have to agree with you on the DS. It's my pooping platform of choice.