Sony PS3 With No Blu-ray: Would you?
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: October 16, 2008 | 59 Comments
The Sony PS3 got off to a very slow start when it was first launched, a few price cuts later and things are looking better for the next-gen games console. Consumers have attacked Sony and asked that the price should be reduced even further: however Sony maintains that they already make a loss on the machine.
Gamers have argued that the price of the Sony PS3 should be more in line with the Xbox 360, but Sony have always said that they cannot do that as they make a loss on the PS3 as it is. The reason they say is because of the hardware inside, mainly the Blu-ray player.
So we have hit on a good point, if the PS3 did not have a Blu-ray player it would then be cheaper to purchase. Would having a PlayStation 3 with no Blu-ray player bother anyone. I have had a PS3 for 6 months now, and in that time i have only played a Blu-ray movie twice.
If you had the choice to have a cheaper PS3, and did not come with a Blu-ray player, would you buy that console?
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Silly question, given that games are also delivered on Blu Ray, and that several games (thinking about MGS4 in paricular) are dependant on that medium…
On the opposite, give us a PS3 with a smaller HDD (20-40Gb) at $299, and you got a winner in both worlds (Blu Ray player and game console).
you need a brain my friend
Blu-ray has cost Sony $billions, and they have zeor to show for it.
Great job Sony.
@greg
with the price of storage these days as low as they are, i dont think shrinking the hd space would actually return that much is cost savings. plus with mandatory installs it wouldnt justify it.
@MCM
sony has been always pushing the limits of new technology so having blu-ray in the machine shouldn’t be too surprising. they put a dvd player in their console before nintendo sega and microsoft, so i don’t mind them doing what they are doing, who knows maybe they will get desperate and drop the price of the xbox 360 twice in six months
**edit: i mean sony ps3
That’s a really odd question, seeing that those games you’ve been playing are made for HD discs - use the capacity - and have the quality unattainable on a regular DVD. I would not replace my PS3 with one without a BR player. That’s dumb.
blu ray is key its cutting edge technology if u dont like the price get a sh*T Box and pay damn near the price of a ps3 for a hddvd drive oh thats right hddvds are out blu rays are in blu ray is half the package not to mention the future of movies & gaming playstation did the right thing microsoft rushed there cheap sh*t out there and it flashed red for every one in two months sony is quality you get what u pay for!!!!!!!
Really, you seriously wasted your time posting this? Buying a PS3 without blu-ray would be… “Unpossible..” games already out like MGS4, DeadSpace, LBP, Socom would all have to be repressed as 3-10 DVD’s, and you’d need to start shipping the unit 500+gig HDDs so that you could pre load the incredible amount of (did someone say uncompressed?) data.
You my friend are silly, don’t leave your day job.
I wont lie PS3 i my console and i will have it anyday over the xbox 360, but main problem is the exclusive titles. Dont get me wrong, PS3 has more exclusives then on xbox 360, but PS3 exclusive are not as good as gears of war and halo 3. Resistance 2 and killzone to could be the halo killers, and littlebigplanet and pretty much own All the wii, lilttle kid games that no buddy plays but every talks about them. But PS3 is losing the exclusive the true playstation fans loved. Like whatever happend to HAveing Final fantasy, tekken, GTA, Spyro, crash, I no all those games were there even before xbox was made but still, if it would be PS3 exclusive, PS3 fans wont think sony is slapping them in the face buy letting it go to xbox. GTA 4 , assasins creed, infamous, Tekken, Final fantasy, and NOW i hear talks about MGS4 going to xbox, This shouldn’t happen, The more exclusives, the better. For example HAZE was great for keeping it exclusive, and MGS4 was crushing the xbox fanboys even though they wont admit it, and GTA being exclusive to xbox would have just devestated them and the only game they can talk about would be saints row which would also be on PS3. I no sony has many first party support and they have lots of 3rd party support to but they cant just let exclusive go and think game developers will just develop games on it exclusivly for free. MOst developers are just not loyal anymore, all they care about is money. And the few that are loyal usally get respect and make great games. SONY just take care of your exclusive and you will be fine. BLu- ray is great technology and i think developers just love having it.. But if consumers really want a cheap PS3, then try making a PS3 that is stripped to the MAX. ANd i mean, take out wifi, keep two USB prots, remove total B/C, even for PS1 games, remove harddrive and WARN the costomer that some games will not work on the console becasue there is no hardrive. and sell it for $250 or less. A bit harsh but when you have some costomers complaining about the drive, give them something that is cheap and eventaully they will realize that it was foolish to want it because it was so cheap. FOr example, people say xbox is so cheap and is almost $200 cheap then PS3. But then a month, later, they had just wasted even more money then as if they just gotten the PS3 in the first place. Sony you need advetise what the PS3 has and what is built in. To people, they are to lazy to do the math them selves. Kids tell there parents oo i want PS3, then they go to the store and see ps3 and xbox right beside it. They ask what PS3 is and what xbox the cheaper one is and see it. To them they dont see the diffrence and stores wont tell them either because they just trying to make money and just tell you about the console you want, not what better or cheaper in the long run. Let people no that HEY, this is the PS3 and it has everything you need built in as oppose to other consoles where you have to pay extra to enjoy all features. This too will also make sales better. I say thins because i am currently borrowing a PS3 from my cousin, as he is on vacation and will get my own this christmas. I also tried xbox 360 and it good when you ave everything but PS3 is just much better and is just a better experiece to me. I want people to get PS3, because i hate playing online with people i dont now and only now a few people becaus everyone else is on xbox live. This problem as become has gotten smaller and i am starting to know many more people having PS3 but the more the better. I love have friends and play PS3 and being able to go to school and laugh at my friend on how i owned him in a game or something funny that happened and i love just playing with people i know and just being able to talk to them when not even at school or on the computer.
I personally am pretty happy with the PS3 the way it is but, because of the XBOX 360’s limited capabilitys developers are only giving us what the 360 can do at max but not what the PS3 can do.
So in this case having Blu-ray in the PS3 has been a bit of a waste so far. I mean there is only one game that has used a 50GB Blu-ray disc and that was MGS4. Truth be told though I bet most of that space was used for the long ass cut-scenes. It was recently found out that Burnout Paradise was only like 3.5GB and that isn’t even a full DVD.
I personally think that if developers started to think about the PS3 first and use some of that space on a blu-ray for other things like for example adding…
- Full Soundtracks
- Wallpapers Associated with their game
- Theme’s Associated with their game
- Trailers
- Making of Video’s
- Artwork
- Access to all Cutscenes that you have viewed via a Cutscene Gallery
- Custom Avatars that you can use for your PSN ID
- and of course extra stuff the 360 version just shouldn’t be able to fit onto a DVD
of course i don’t think this will ever happen. Since Developers are in it for the $$$ they will probably never just give us access to the Soundtrack,Theme’s & Avatars without trying to charge us for it. I mean now the PS3 store has a Premium Theme section.When the PS3 music store comes they will charge you for the Soundtrack and I’m sure charging for Avatars is just around the corner.
As for all the other stuff I mentioned most of that stuff they just stick on the PS3 Store for free. I really think developers should make use of the 25GB Blu-ray disc and try to get as much of the stuff that is associated with their game on the disc.
It kinda shows how much they are really trying to make full use of the PS3’s capability’s. So as long as the 360 is around and developers focus on it we won’t see much better or extra from the PS3 unfortunatly.
of course i will buy it, i don’t need the blue ray player, i need a console to play games, not blue ray movies, damn it they will get rip off…
I agree….. I am not a very rich kid, and I don’t need the BluRay Gimme Wi Fi and an 80GB HDD and I’m ready for some gamin.