I understand that Blu-ray is (or stated to be) that much more versatile and powerful than a normal DVD.

The problem herein lies that most developers product cross-platform.

E.g. Resident Evil --> Cube and PS2. EA, Take2, majesco - basically all developers that swear allegience to no one.

Given that they will be 'limited' by the power of the X360 and revolution, how many games out there will utilise the full power and potential of the PS3 engine? This puzzles me because unless Sony really strangles the living hell out of X360 and nintendo revolution (a repeat of this gen should be good enough), producers will continue to produce X360 and rev standard of games for the supposedly more powerful PS3.

Now the power difference between the PS2 to Xbox is uncomparable to the power difference of PS3 and X360. From what I hear, the PS3 will be impressively ahead of the X360 in terms of pure power. If the MGS4 trailer is really what it is meant to be, than how will games utilise the power of the PS3 while allowing it to be cross-platform?

Just like to know out of curiousity.

I honestly only see Blu-Ray benefiting the ps3 in its ability to play HD movies instead of buying a much more expensive Blu-Ray player, since its included it will boost ps3 sales just like the DVD did for ps2.

but i dont think it will have much of a advantage for games, because games like Oblivion on x360, it has about 300 Hours of gameplay if you do everything there is to do on the game, and thats within 9GB of space and Oblivion has been in development for 2-4 years, if it takes 2-4 years to make a good long RPG, think of how long it would take just to get to 20GB games, They would either be rushed to get it out and most likely not be very good, or they would be in development for a unbelievably long time, not to mention there are many techniques to use smaller space for more data like compression, so honestly i dont think Blu-Ray will make that big of a deal for games. All i can see it doing is having slower load times Because this will most likely be BluRayX1, and x360 is DVD x 12 which loads faster and really is enough space for games, the HD-DVD drive announced by MS will only be used for movies most likely, why? because they know that in all actuality, that 9GB's is enough for games.

Just my opinion on the subject.

i like that ps3 is going to have blu-ra discs because those has like 25gb or more

yah blue ray is superior

So, are you people saying that PS3 games will be appearing on DVD's and not on blu-ray discs?

Also, I actually dislike the idea of PS3 having blu-ray, since the reader itself and the discs are more expensive.

Blue ray will play both the dvds and the games. Also Blue ray is superior to what the 360 uses.

the xbox 360 runs off of regular dual layer DVD's. The same ones you rent from Blockbuster when you get a movie for the night. Blu-Ray golds double to capacity, but is still fairly new technology so there realy arent that many drives out there for the disks yet. I have seen a few blu-ray burners on line for sale, but the blank disks are just so costly, like $65 per disk.

So that kinda means lesser sales for Sony since ppl don't want to spend so much money on a game, that they will only play for 1-2 weeks.

Even though the BluRay holds vastly more data that the dual layer DVD's for 360, it also means slower load times for BluRay media at only 1X. :( Prolly won't be a lot of BluRay games..at least not at first. Imagine the 25 to 50 GB game :eek: