I was thinking, now that HD-DVD is gone, Blu-Ray doesn’t have competition anymore (at least in the home theater department), so there no reason for them to drop prices. Thankfully, it still has plenty of competition in the video game department. Maybe, thanks to this deal, PS3s will go down in price again this year? It’s sure make buying the system a lot more feasible. As it is now, I’ve no real reason to get one. I don’t have an HDTV, so hi-def stuff is wasted on my setup. As for videogames, my PS2 and Xbox 360 are quite sufficient. I’ll be missing out on Metal Gear Solid 4, for now anyway, but I’d probably have waited for the inevitable special edition anyway...
now that HD-DVD is gone... there no reason for them to drop prices.Depends... there was a similar system before, which made it difficult to raise prices, true, but the breakeven point was worse because they expected to sell fewer units. What we'll now see is, more manufacturers of Blu-Ray, more competition, and lower prices as a result. Then Blu-Ray will start to replace DVDs, but not until a year or so after high-def digital broadcast, when HDTVs really start moving.