Nintendo’s Choice of No HD

Why Nintendo Should and Should not have high definition in the Nintendo Wii.  Opinions below: 

Sony has blamed the PS3′s Blu-ray drive for a multitude of system issues, including the $600 U.S. price tag. “Don’t worry about the high price,” they say, “because really you’re getting a lot for very little.”Sony is operating on the assumption that people will buy the PS3 for the Blu-ray player without resenting the lack of an option not to, a strategy that worked well for the PS2. When the PS2 first launched in Japan, the most popular piece of software bought with the system wasn’t even a game, but The Matrix on DVD.

Yet how much demand is there for Blu-ray players? Even with their obvious advantages over the VHS, it took DVDs six years (1997 to 2003) to match video tapes in the rental stores. And unlike DVDs, which offered many features that VHS couldn’t, Blu-ray’s main benefit over a standard DVD is that it can fit a high definition movie.

The catch, of course, is that in order to see any benefit from a high definition movie you have to own an HD TV.

Cost of an average HD TV? More than $1000.

The PS3 relies on a feature that can’t be utilized without equipment that sells for double the PS3 itself. Sony is hoping the PS3 will be carried by a feature that will go almost unused by the time the PS3 is replaced by the PS4.
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