From www.gamerfeed.com Blu-ray for PlayStation 3 By Chris Faylor -- News Writer Published 5:59 PM CDT, August 4, 2004 The next PlayStation will use Sony's Blu-ray format, which can hold over five times that of a standard DVD. A recent Forbes report seems to confirm the long-standing rumor that the PlayStation 3 will utilize Blu-ray technology. The article states "Sony officials said the company will equip an upcoming version of the PlayStation2 video console with a Blu-ray Disc player," with the next sentence reading "Sony plans to announce the outline of the next version of PlayStation2 by March 31, 2005, they said." Given the manner in which Forbes refers to the PlayStation 3 as "the next version of PlayStation2" in the second statement, it is assumed that they are also referring to the PS3 in the first. Through the use of blue lasers, Blu-ray Discs provide up to 23 GigaBytes of storage on a medium that is no physically larger than a DVD or CD. Thus far, 13 firms have agreed to begin manufacturing Blu-ray Disc video players by the end of the fiscal year 2005.
Egads, and this is still backwards-compatible with the PS1? I have to give them credit for that. It'll be interesting to see how developers utilize this "blu-ray" tech though.
it probally will take care of the piracy problem for an while. (at least then the games are really 40GIG... takes to long to download, and there are no blue ray burners atm)
so, ps3 wont be able to read dvd is i follow you corectly? :smt017 that's not looking like a sony marketing plan to me...well,imo.
A dummy file will take care of that, but through networking etc. there'll always be the possibility of piracy.Sony has never done too much against it and hasn't failed with that strategy,same with activision for Doom 3,no copy protection or anything and they have more sales than ever before.
23 GB on a disk!!! Amazing techincally, but no current videogames console needs that much storage, hell most Xbox/PS2 games don't completely fill a DVD. So PS3 is blatantly a Blu-Ray Video marketing ploy. Same as PS2 was a cheap way to get a DVD player back when the PS2 came out. And, looking back on videogame history, giving developers more storage than they need is silly. When devco.s got their hand on the massive (compared to cart) storage of CD, we got shitty FMV games, like Nighttrap and all those crazy anime videomanga games on PCEngine. It wasn't until true 3D machines that needed that much storage came along that CD/DVD was really worth it. So, makes you wonder what Sony are gonna stick on a 23GB disk. Maybe we will see Nighttrap2, with proper DVD quality wierd Pr0n :smt040
Putting blue-ray into the PS3 is just a way for them to stuff blue-ray down the throat of the masses. It will take games ages to come to a point where they actually need that much space and meanwhile blueray recorder and disc will invade our homes to make sony bigger and richer :Hangman:
A long time ago, CDDA was what filled up the the CDs (PCE/MCD), then came CDDA & CD/XA (FMV etc) for (SS/PSX) now, game systems are powerful enough to play compressed audio/video which is even the fastest/most efficient way to play so this really is overkill. At least we'll never see multiple disc games again (unless a developer is retarded)
formats sony sometimes blows it with new formats.. DAT, beta and whatnot, they're good and all but didn't necasarilly catch on with the masses. still in use just only for those who prefer/can afford it :smt033 :smt040
but who can burn to master code in -R disc? he he he SNK,MD just CRC check PSX, use CDW-900E with SCE hardware scsi-card SS,DC use XXXXX burner burn after close section burn the copyright code PCE,PCFX use can CAV model burner to burn playdai,pippin,3do, just disc to disc :smt009
well, games are starting to be bigger than dvds, just look at the new gta ; the game will use a double dvd. the next wave of consoles will need bigger storage discs , now we will be able to view huge areas with the memory of the next ps3 (just to talk about ps3) incredibly detailled textures and map that of tousand of virtual miles. sure, games that will take all the storage capacity of a BD will not exist 'till alot of years , but that's was the same case with cds and dvds. remember sonic cd that used around 130 mo of a cd , and at the beginning, alot of ps2 games used cd, not dvds.... plus we are years before the release of the ps3 .but games will not stop to evolve for this reason...at the end of this generation life , 2 dvd games will not be uncomon (or double dvds). plus , sony will gain power over the piracy war ....now we just need to know if piracy is an ally of sony or an enemy.... :smt017 that's not the dream of every gaming compagnies....''bigger and richer''?
Personally, I reckon blu-ray Video will fail. MiniDisk failed, because everyone had only just managed to build up a decent library of audio CDs, after upgrading from tape. Although, Sony's NetMD players are absolute quality. Same with blu-ray. Consumers have spent the past 5yrs building up decent DVD collections. To be told that they now need to got a BR player and films just won't wash with the general public. Sony need to realise that the general public and gamers are two very different beasties. Videogamers may well buy a new machine and games every 4 years or so, but the general consumer public expect a new system, like DVD, to last for at least 15 - 20yrs before they need to upgrade again.
Blue-ray recorders/players are backwards compatible with the current dvd's and cd's so the consumer will eventually just buy a blue-ray system because their old stuff will work on it. It's just a matter of time before prices on those machines drop and sales go up.
No, mini disc failed because it was shit. It was never a hi fi alternative to CD and was never meant to replace it. MD was for portable devices.
My MD broke within two months of purchase. I had it repaired and it broke again...and it's not like I dropped it either, it's just poorly built. Same thing with my friend's Sony DJ headphones, they're poorly built and the plastic keeps snapping at the weak points...Sony and Quality should never be in the same sentence.
Could you elaborate on this? I have read loads of speculation about the Saturn`s copy protection, iirc there was no definitive answer if the ring actually contains data or just reflects light in a certain manner...
Ohhh, thought of a reason for a 23GB disk - Shenmue. Complete, every chapter, all on one disk. But that'll never happen. Ever. Bugger.
I'd like to be optimistic and hope for it to happen. Hopefully Shenmue Online will take off and provide a steady revenue stream for the franchise nto to mention an increased profile and consumer awareness.
Deisgners know that an equally skilled engineer can pirate the media they are designing. They just want to stop the normal people at home without special equipment. How many people know how to rip a ps2 game to CD or DC game versus the "casual" bootlegger who just downloads isos. It will be like ps2 and DC, the scene people will rip Blueray to DVD dual layer, and you'll use a mod chip. Even if the videos are encoded in HDTV, you don't need 23 GB. There will probably be a lot of dummy files.
