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If you are a Sony Playstation or Xbox gamer you might want to spend the 5 or 10 minutes and read this. The inner workings
some facts may not be accurate and everything else here is speculation and rumor and rumors based on facts
feel free to correct anything you know to be false
Did you notice Sony is releasing game systems like every what 6 years?
Microsoft seems to be on schedule to release one about every 3.
Sony is behind Movies, Music, T.V.'s, Video Games, Portable music players, digital cameras, movie cameras and huge online MMORPG's like Everquest, among other things.
About the Blu Ray disc technology:
As for the Playstation 3 using Blu Ray this would be good for them. These discs are about 50GB and would have no problems for games like Everquest III years down the line. My guess, there is no way they are going to release a new Playstation untill about 2011 or later, and you can bet it will continue to sell for years after that simply becuase of the way they are marketing it to be supported and used with Blu Ray.
Now Microsoft seems to have a different plan.
They May release an Xbox 540 in 3-5 years, when HD DVD or Blu Ray or whatever format everyone goes with. This new system would support whatever the next disc format is.
Their PS2 is still selling well; for example after what? 5 years?
Another reason they are pushing this Blu Ray drive is becuase their media is being stolen from them by pirating, bootlegging, copying-whatever you want to call it.
This Blu Ray drive has patented technology that could prevent you from playing used, borrowed, or pirated media. Whether they CHOOSE to use it is not my decision.
I will dub this a "lock" or "block"
What types of media they will lock is unknown but you can be sure they will use it. For example they may put a lock on their video games, but they would not lock your stuff from your Blu Ray movie camera obviously.
Now before you panic, im thinking if they do lock games to 1 system they would know that everything that sells is not going to sell again.
Think about this:
1 person buys a game plays it for a month and trades it in, next person buys that same game(used) plays it for a month and trades it in., etc., etc,. etc.
Now, consider the playstation 3 being in use for 10 years from now think of how many times that ONE game they sold then re-sold to 50 PEOPLE! Thats $2,500 dollars they lost on only 1 game!
Sony is not going through this drastic measure of disc security just to piss everyone off.
The other thing is, for those people that would take their broken PS3 back to the store and try getting a new one for free, their discs wont work.
They want to encourage people to send it to be repaired instead of tricking Stores, switching a broken PS3 for a brand new one.
ALSO, IF THEY LOCK each game to 1 system they can CHOOSE to sell their games for much much less.
of course at the games release they will ask as much as they can, but they can lower it $5 every 2 months for example, and settle on a $20 selling point. not that Microsofts xbox games will not price compete. but sony is thinking future profits.
They could make the decision to only block any pirated discs.
How they will know if its pirated? I don't know. It seems like they would like to go as far as to send info over the internet to Sony if your system detects a Bootleg movie or game. They are going to do anything they can if this will prevent theft and money loss in the .. lets say millions, hell billions of dollars over a long term. (just a guess) Its obviously enough money to make them go to this measure.
BUT microsofts system will not be around as long, it has a shorter shelf life. They don't care as much if there are 1 million used games out there, being re-sold, in a few years they will be creating a bigger, better system (xbox 540?)that supports whatever type of disc (even blu ray with disc security if this becomes the leading format) and then Microsoft now has this disc security also.
Both Companies win. And with them competing with each other? This is always good. It is clear to me that both companies are going to be successfull with their game systems and future game systems well beyond the next decade.
This is all just my observations and researching, mostly just thinking. Listening to rumors and trying to find the logic.
so who knows?
not me.
Perhaps:
Microsoft wants you to use your PC to control your life and Sony wants to use a Playstation.
How? Its called a hub.
Microsofts hub is the PC running windows, linked to an xbox540 with blu ray or HD DVD whatever catches on.
Sonys hub will be the Playstation3 with blu ray. This is what will hook up to all your electronics like cameras, and will play your movies and games
You can bet sony playstations will have keyboards and mice and things. Sony COMPUTER entertainment.
Anyway. This is how i see it going down. What these companies do in the future is probably not even clear to them. But they are planning.
Someone will start reading this and will not like what im saying and will not even finish reading it and will say this is a load of crap. And it is! w00t. Im merely speculating! hahahaha :rolling:
I find all this very interesting. Hopefully you did too. Let me know. I like talking about things like this.
some facts may not be accurate and everything else here is speculation and rumor and rumors based on facts
feel free to correct anything you know to be falseDid you notice Sony is releasing game systems like every what 6 years?
Microsoft seems to be on schedule to release one about every 3.
Sony is behind Movies, Music, T.V.'s, Video Games, Portable music players, digital cameras, movie cameras and huge online MMORPG's like Everquest, among other things.
About the Blu Ray disc technology:
As for the Playstation 3 using Blu Ray this would be good for them. These discs are about 50GB and would have no problems for games like Everquest III years down the line. My guess, there is no way they are going to release a new Playstation untill about 2011 or later, and you can bet it will continue to sell for years after that simply becuase of the way they are marketing it to be supported and used with Blu Ray.
Now Microsoft seems to have a different plan.
They May release an Xbox 540 in 3-5 years, when HD DVD or Blu Ray or whatever format everyone goes with. This new system would support whatever the next disc format is.
Their PS2 is still selling well; for example after what? 5 years?
Another reason they are pushing this Blu Ray drive is becuase their media is being stolen from them by pirating, bootlegging, copying-whatever you want to call it.
This Blu Ray drive has patented technology that could prevent you from playing used, borrowed, or pirated media. Whether they CHOOSE to use it is not my decision.
I will dub this a "lock" or "block"
What types of media they will lock is unknown but you can be sure they will use it. For example they may put a lock on their video games, but they would not lock your stuff from your Blu Ray movie camera obviously.
Now before you panic, im thinking if they do lock games to 1 system they would know that everything that sells is not going to sell again.
Think about this:
1 person buys a game plays it for a month and trades it in, next person buys that same game(used) plays it for a month and trades it in., etc., etc,. etc.
Now, consider the playstation 3 being in use for 10 years from now think of how many times that ONE game they sold then re-sold to 50 PEOPLE! Thats $2,500 dollars they lost on only 1 game!
Sony is not going through this drastic measure of disc security just to piss everyone off.
The other thing is, for those people that would take their broken PS3 back to the store and try getting a new one for free, their discs wont work.
They want to encourage people to send it to be repaired instead of tricking Stores, switching a broken PS3 for a brand new one.
ALSO, IF THEY LOCK each game to 1 system they can CHOOSE to sell their games for much much less.
of course at the games release they will ask as much as they can, but they can lower it $5 every 2 months for example, and settle on a $20 selling point. not that Microsofts xbox games will not price compete. but sony is thinking future profits.
They could make the decision to only block any pirated discs.
How they will know if its pirated? I don't know. It seems like they would like to go as far as to send info over the internet to Sony if your system detects a Bootleg movie or game. They are going to do anything they can if this will prevent theft and money loss in the .. lets say millions, hell billions of dollars over a long term. (just a guess) Its obviously enough money to make them go to this measure.
BUT microsofts system will not be around as long, it has a shorter shelf life. They don't care as much if there are 1 million used games out there, being re-sold, in a few years they will be creating a bigger, better system (xbox 540?)that supports whatever type of disc (even blu ray with disc security if this becomes the leading format) and then Microsoft now has this disc security also.
Both Companies win. And with them competing with each other? This is always good. It is clear to me that both companies are going to be successfull with their game systems and future game systems well beyond the next decade.
This is all just my observations and researching, mostly just thinking. Listening to rumors and trying to find the logic.
so who knows?
not me.
Perhaps:
Microsoft wants you to use your PC to control your life and Sony wants to use a Playstation.
How? Its called a hub.
Microsofts hub is the PC running windows, linked to an xbox540 with blu ray or HD DVD whatever catches on.
Sonys hub will be the Playstation3 with blu ray. This is what will hook up to all your electronics like cameras, and will play your movies and games
You can bet sony playstations will have keyboards and mice and things. Sony COMPUTER entertainment.
Anyway. This is how i see it going down. What these companies do in the future is probably not even clear to them. But they are planning.
Someone will start reading this and will not like what im saying and will not even finish reading it and will say this is a load of crap. And it is! w00t. Im merely speculating! hahahaha :rolling:
I find all this very interesting. Hopefully you did too. Let me know. I like talking about things like this.
