The problem I see Sony having is that they are getting too close to the price of a normal computer... Getting a video card that gets you HDMI out will be easy and you would have the choice of HD-DVD or Blu-Ray plus the capability of burning those discs if you buy a drive for your PC down the road. I think they have spent way to much time focusing on movies and not enough time on games.
One may wonder why they didn't build a standard connection that could be supplemented with a cable like the 360 did...
I think they NEED to offer a lower priced model and the only thing they can "afford" to drop out of the console is the HDMI... if they drop the Blu-Ray drive the machine wont even work with the games since the games will be produced on blu-ray. But it does gives users enough reason to buy the higher end model and feel better about the higher price.
Also... the 20/60 GB hard drive is stupid... if you are going to put a bigger hard drive in the highend console it HAS to be much large than the smaller one... You need to get that up to 100GB+... you can 250GB in a Tivo box...
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The problem I see Sony having is that they are getting too close to the price of a normal computer... Getting a video card that gets you HDMI out will be easy and you would have the choice of HD-DVD or Blu-Ray plus the capability of burning those discs if you buy a drive for your PC down the road. I think they have spent way to much time focusing on movies and not enough time on games.
One may wonder why they didn't build a standard connection that could be supplemented with a cable like the 360 did...
I think they NEED to offer a lower priced model and the only thing they can "afford" to drop out of the console is the HDMI... if they drop the Blu-Ray drive the machine wont even work with the games since the games will be produced on blu-ray. But it does gives users enough reason to buy the higher end model and feel better about the higher price.
Also... the 20/60 GB hard drive is stupid... if you are going to put a bigger hard drive in the highend console it HAS to be much large than the smaller one... You need to get that up to 100GB+... you can 250GB in a Tivo box...