Despite slow sales of the Blu-ray format with players still costing a lot more than HD DVD players, the upcoming PlayStation3 due to launch very shortly will put some good focus on the Blu-ray format, particularly as it will result in a lot of Blu-ray players being put on the market, since every PS3 doubles up as a Blu-ray player. However, according to Peter Chernin, president and chief operating officer of News Corp. this will definitely be no resolution to the format wars either.
While the HD DVD sales may be much stronger, a few studios including 20th century Fox have only released titles on the Blu-ray format, with no plans yet to release any titles on HD DVD at this time. The PS3 is currently set to launch on November 11th in Japan, followed by US, Hong Kong and Taiwan on November 17th.
In my opinion, even if the Playstation 3 turns out to be a tremendous success, this does not necessarily mean that its users are going to suddenly start forking out on Blu-ray movies, particularly if most are simply after it for playing games. For example, it could well be possible that there could end up being many times more PS3 markets on the market than HD DVD players, but this does not mean that this will be true when it comes to Blu-ray vs. HD DVD sales respectively.
Source: PC World Canada
