bamapride79 said:
So that would put the 360 in PS3 price range? Seems like the PS3 isnt so overpriced after all.
If you're in the market for a HD player, no. If you're in the market for a game machine, yes.
That's one of the things I like about the 360...options. I'm waiting for this format war to settle itself out and prices to come down before I jump in.
Blu-Ray on the PS3 is nothing but a trojan horse for Sony to get Blu-Ray players into homes. They desperately need to win the HD format war and the storage capacity of Blu-Ray is going to be of pretty much no benefit for gaming. In fact, there's a possibility that PS3 games will be released on what is essentially a 9GB DVD that uses Blu-Ray code.
Anyways, there are also rumors that the 360 could see either a price cut or more bundled into it (game, Live points, etc) by the time the PS3 launches.
edit: BTW...so far, the picture quality reviews favor HD-DVD. The $500 HD-DVD player looks much better than the $1000 Blu-Ray player. Mostly because HD-DVD is using a newer video codec (VC1) while Blu-Ray is using the older mpeg-2 video codec.