Next Gen Gaming And Video Ahoy
Posted on | February 15, 2008 at 5:54 pm | Comments Off
Well, I finally did it. I ordered a PlayStation 3. I bought it online, so I probably won’t be getting it for a week or two. The more expensive 80GB units (which have SACD and backwards compatibility) are becoming extremely rare and the conventional wisdom says that Sony is going to stop making them soon. I didn’t want to settle for the 40GB unit and bought the 80GB, since I really wanted those extra features.
Although for all I know, I’ll be using it exclusively to play Blu-Ray discs. Every day, it looks more and more like BR has won the HiDef DVD format war against rival format HD-DVD. Wal-Mart joined Netflix and Best Buy this week in essentially dumping HD-DVD and focusing on Blu-Ray exclusively. And it looks like HD-DVD creator Toshiba is giving up on the format. So I’m glad I’m backing the format winner, although having a Next Gen game system along with it is a pretty cool supplement. As I said before, I’ve already got one game (Heavenly Sword) and one set of Blu-Ray discs (Lost, S3) just waiting for it.
I know… I don’t need more things to take up my time. But at least I’ll never be bored.
Stay tuned.
Latre.