…As a gamer I have been enjoying watching the console wars play out. As fan of all things Microsoft I have enjoyed watching Sony continually talk itself into a deeper and deeper pit.

For example:

Kaz 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.

Ozymandias has been speaking his mind and doing it in a tech-savvy and altogether coherent way. He has plenty of interesting things to say about the above statement.

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