Sony More Concerned with Blu-Ray than PS3

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Some speculation is abounding that Sony is more concerned with using the PS3 as a means of getting a foothold for their PS3 technology and not nearly as concerned with dominating the console market with the PS3. This means they might make sacrifices that will cost them market share versus Microsoft, but still allow them to potentially win the battle of the new HD drives.

SONY is prepared to hand over ground to Microsoft's XBox for a couple of years if it means that it gets Blu-Ray established.

Mystic musers from Wedbush Morgan Securities, Michael Pachter and Edward Woo, say that Microsoft's XBox 360 will rule the roost in the console market for the next two years. They think that Sony is more interested in winning the HD format wars than the console battle.

In a report into the future of the console industry the authors say that, in the long term, the console wars will not be won by the manufacturer who has the most videogame titles per console, but rather, it will be determined by consumers' willingness to adopt new high definition DVD formats.

The report implies what we have always said, that Sony is only using its PS3 as a method of hooking people into the Blu-Ray format.

Pachter and Woo said that after a year or two the PS3 will win the console battle, but only if it wins the HD Format wars first.

Sony and Blu-Ray (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31406)

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This is the way every market works....sometimes you have to lay low for awhile to get ahead. Even though Sony may be concentrating on establishing Blu Ray more at the moment it will help their console war in the long run. The PS3 is dependent on the success of Blu Ray disks as that is the format the PS3 was designed for and not HD Disks as with the XBox###. So if Sony can establish dominance in the disk market with Blu Ray and knock out HD Disks as the leading disk storage format they will essentially kill the XBox.

This is the same strategy they used with Nintendo when the original PS first came out. Sony had to push to market the CD as the dominant gaming platform over Nintendo's well estatblished cartridge market. Sony won this battle and as we all know Nintendo was basically dead in the water with the N64 and Sega was put 6 feet under as a console provider. Sony knows marketing and consoles like the Microsoft know's operating systems so maybe it would be more wise for Microsoft to follow Sony's lead in pushing for the Blu Ray disk as opposed to HD Disks.....