From Kotaku.com:
Sony just can't stop delaying Blu-Ray. Previously rescheduled for an August 15th launch. Sony's quietly pushed back their first Blu-Ray platyer, the BDP-S1, to October 25th, just a few weeks before the PS3 hits.
This is all very odd. The BDP-S1's price is going to be $995 in the States, where as the PS3 will be $500-$600 dollars and have gaming features besides. Surely that sort of price discrepancy illustrates how foolish it would be to release the BDP-S1 mere weeks before the far better value of the PS3.
So are Sony actually releasing the BDP-S1 to fail.... releasing the two Blu-Ray players within weeks one another so they can point to the BDP-S1 and talk about what a better deal the PS3 is? An odd strategy, to say the least.
And then from DigitalMediaThoughts.com:
One of the bashing points of Blue-Ray has been price. I think based on prior reports, a lot of us were expecting the movies to be in the $30 to $40 range. Needless to say, I was quite surprised to see Terminator on Blue-Ray going for $11.99 on Amazon. That seems to be the lowest price out there for Blue-Ray movies, but they do also have some other back catalog items (The 5th Element and House of Flying Daggers) for $19.99. More recent titles (Underworld: Evolution) were $26.99. I'm not sure if this is just an Amazon thing or if this is a studio marketing ploy, but it sure is nice to be surprise for once with prices being lower than expected.
PS3 is sounding pretty good to me right now. What do you think?
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