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Hybrid PlayStation 3 Blu-ray discs to be released this year |
Listed in: PS3 Tags: John Koller, Sony
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Before the death of HD DVD (if any of you remember what that is), one
of the PlayStation 3's pitches was that it was both a game console and
a Blu-ray player, making it a cheap device for what it can do. But now that Blu-ray has the next-gen format all to itself, the market's being flooded with cheaper and cheaper Blu-ray players. What's Sony's game plan now? Make the PlayStation 3 cheaper?
You wish. (So do I.) No, they're just changing tactics, and is planning to release hybrid Blu-ray discs, containing both movie and game. John Koller, director of hardware marketing for the PS3, says 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, wouldnÂ’t it be great to marry these concepts? We will definitely see this stuff this year.
Just in time too, with the slew of movie-based video games on the way. There's Transformers, G.I. Joe, Wolverine, and who knows what else. Of course this won't be possible for games like Metal Gear which take up most of the Blu-ray's space, but then games that take up that much space likely won't need a movie attached to sell anyway.
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Via Video Business
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OR, they could have a game, and on the BD-Video part of the disc, it will have bonus videos, making of, etc... that would be a good use of the extra space they got on the disc
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ps3ispoop,
http://sites.google.com/site/sonyhatesyou
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*dusts off banhammer, preps it for use*
Toink. There we go...
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Either way...
Victory is mine!
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this will make QJ news reading a little pleasant to most of us real gamers. thanks
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On the other hand, I don't know what compatibility issues this might cause in standalone players, if any.
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Example:
[make the game, movie scenes in between in the game(like force unleashed), and the fuller movie showing how the game could be played by watching the movie(basically the force unleashed as a full real movie)]
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Not that I'm defending him or anything, that was a clear flamebait but it could've been a valid comment.
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