Kaz Hirai Talks About Blu-ray |
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President of Sony Entertainment, Kazuo Hirai takes the hot seat as he answers Daniel Terdiman of Cnet's inquiries about the PLAYSTATION 3. Some of the questions have been asked so frequently (There were rumors that the Wii would be priced for less than $250. How did that affect PlayStation 3? Any concern that Nintendo's Wii pricing will undercut the market as people decide which console they want to buy? Are you saying that there won't be a PlayStation 4 within five years?) that probably, you'd now what Hirai's answer would be.The interview's high point is when Hirai was asked about Blu-ray. Here's an excerpt of the conversation regarding Blu-ray.
Is there a danger that some consumers will buy PlayStation 3 just for the Blu-ray player and not the games?
Hirai: Consumers are going to look at the totality of what we offer in the PlayStation 3. Even if there was a consumer who decided to buy the PlayStation 3 perhaps as a Blu-ray player, I think that they will quickly realize the potential and the entertainment value of the fantastic content in true (high definition). Any consumer would be hard-pressed really not to try that functionality out.
Given the differences in pricing, which is fairly significant between Microsoft's Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, are there any chances of a PlayStation 3 down the line that doesn't have Blu-ray built in?
Hirai: The PlayStation 3 uses the Blu-ray as its storage medium for both games and for movies as well. We wanted to take advantage of the storage capacity that Blu-ray offers in terms of motion pictures and other content, but most importantly, for games as well. Our decision to include the Blu-ray player from day one in all of our PlayStation 3s was the right decision and, quite honestly, the only decision we can make.
Look at the massive amounts of data that's required to provide a truly immersive gaming experience in true HD. If you only have a DVD ROM drive, which can only go up to about 9GB or so, you're going to end up with a game that's going to have two or possibly even three discs. And then you're going to have to ask consumers to swap discs out or cache all the game onto the hard drive which I think is an inconvenience--not to mention the fact that you're going to fill up a 20GB hard drive very quickly with some of these games. So trying to go without a Blu-ray drive in the PlayStation 3 really is a nonstarter.
Another interesting point raised was that if the PLAYSTATION 3 can ship on time. However, if you've read his previous interview, we think his confident, “I’ve been through this three times now. We are tracking to meet our targets. At the end of the day we’ll meet our commitments.” will surely assure any and every fan that everything's just peachy.
Via Cnet
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I'd buy the PS3 just for the Blu ray content.
but as a gamer, I'm far more pleased it's mostly for games
blue ray for games and hd for movies
Five Hundred and Ninety Nine US Dollars!
Five Hundred and Ninety Nine US Dollars!
Five Hundred and Ninety Nine US Dollars!
Five Hundred and Ninety Nine US Dollars!
Five Hundred and Ninety Nine US Dollars!
Five Hundred and Ninety Nine US Dollars!
Five Hundred and Ninety Nine US Dollars!
ps3 will ship spring of '06
riiiiight!
Funny how everyone is in love with blu-ray when no one has played one....who knows, it could lag like hell, or scratch all up after a month or 2....
anyways, I haven't seen anything on PS3 that looks better than GRAW, and thats on a standard DVD ROM...
notice how he talks only about OOOH THE FEATURES OF 1080P HD AND BLURAY but doesnt talk about the price!!!
CUZ YEAHHH WE GOT THE BEST SH*T OUT THERE BUT WE DONT CARE ABOUT THE PRICE AND ALL YOU NOOBS GONA BUY IT!!!
im so sick and tired of that.
children
i would like to get ps3 for bluray, but i haven't nearly enough cash to get a hd tv... my only dvd player apart from my computer is my ps2... so i would happily only ever get ps3 in order to play hd movies...
this is good, bluray is good, i won't have to buy a player as i will already have one.
you're sick and tired of not being able to afford a simple game console? earn more money dude.
no, im just sick of sony's arrogance. not sick of 'me not being able to afford a simple game console' cuz i can buy it.
they overpromise and underdeliver.
the ps3 got downgraded again.
I, along with many early HDTV adaptors, have been starving for HD content. Cable is not enough and we need something like the PS3 to spearhead the way for HDTV. Movies, gaming and downloads and in the glory that is 720P/1080P. 360 is helping too but the PS3 will drive this ten fold come this holiday. Out of those millions of potential PS3 customers this year (even the ones that are waiting for next year), how many do you think will buy new TVs.
SD will be obsolete (they pretty much are now as I believe 60-70% of new TVs sold now are HD) very soon as manufactures move on to better tech. You will not even be able to find SDTVs in the coming years. Learn to live with it. Just like when we moved from gray to color it takes a major product to move the technology into people's homes and make it cheap for mass consumption due to mass production.
That technology is the PS3.
yeah but how many tvs actually support native 1080p. Almost none, well at least where I live. My 50" plasma only supports 720p and 1080i i've never even seen one in a store that supports 1080p here in aus.
Also the competition between HD-dvd and bluray is still pretty big, so if hd-dvd emerges as the winner, what will you do with a bluray player no one makes movies for anymore. Wouldn't be the first time sony have relesed a media format and then lost to a competitor. *cough betamax owned by vhs* and UMD is dead too now. I'm gonna see what happens with the PS3 before jumping in and getting one on launch day.
And SD will be around for years to come, normal people won't spend $2000+ for a tiny flat panel tv which supports HD which is only marginally bigger, if bigger at all than their standard home tv.
#10 Your an idiot. If you believe every rumor that comes out about the PS3 then your no better then a child who believes in Santa Clause.
As for HDTVs. There have been 1080p native TVs for a while now. And the 2007 line of TVs will become the affordable line of 1080p TVs.
40" are going less then 1500 and 65" are going for 3000.
I for one have a 100" Projector thats native to 720p and a 50" LCD TV thats 1080p native. So i can take advantage of the PS3 on either screens.
PS3 will be big. Anyone who doesnt believe so will know for real when Sony has the lead by the end of mid 2007. Then that also means that Blu-ray players will outnumber HD-DVD players because there will be millions compared to thousands.
why do you keep thinking that if the blu-ray fails the ps3 goes with it, has the psp failed because umd is a bust?no, it hasnt so please think a little bit more before you post. if and when the blu-ray fails it will still be used for gaming but like bill gates and phil harrison has been saying the next (after ps3/360) consoles we will be getting our hands on will probably not use a physical discs. but for now am not complaining about the ps3's medium of getting its programs out to us, the price of the hardware or the PR's being arrogant, just give me the games i want and i will be satisfied.
Five Hundred and Ninety Nine US Dollars FOR THE MODEL THAT COMPLETLY PWNS THE XBOX 360
Four Hundred and Ninety Nine US Dollars FOR THE MODEL THAT IS ON PAR WITH 360 AND STILL HAS A BLUE RAY PLAYER!
#13
haha "VIETONE" lol you seem to love SONY so much.
yeah i guess we'll see how well Bluray goes.
it might fail like betamax, MD, and UMD who knows right?
we'll see....
#13. it's you're, not your. maybe you're an idiot.
Are you talking from experience? I mean, I've heard about lag and games being scratched on the 360.
you seem to be one of the few persons who actually get this point.
how does the $6OO console 'pwn' the 36O in any way? Its overpriced for starters. It comes with useless crap that probably 2% of day one owners will use. I'm incredibly tired of the fanboys. I own a 36O and plan on getting a ps3 on day one but I would never say that one 'pwns' the other. Last gen, the xbox was of course way better than the ps2. but this gen, both of them got the same core parts(hard drive, hd output, online service). So, to all the fanboys, please stop!
most of the games will use blu-ray as the medium.
So that brings us back up to at least 95% of the PS3 users utilising blu-ray.
no offence, but there is a reason why this guy is the head of one of the biggest names in gaming. maybe you should think about that before posting stuff slagging off sony.
if he wasnt doing anything right, he wouldnt be in the job, pure and simple, not to mention s.c.e.e wouldnt be as big as they are today.