i pretty much have the same exact concerns from march:
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Rob Kamphausen said:
1) for games, CD capability is just starting to reach its maximum. a DVD capability peak is years away. is a whole new format really necessary just yet?
2) ps1 CD games had some loading times. ps2 DVD games had some loading times, often surpassing the original. jumping up 500% could take forever, unless they majorly hook up the system ram.
3) the cost! can a system that reads and plays BDs (especially with the above added hookups) be reasonably priced? are we looking at a $4 or $500 tag? can the BDs themselves still hold a $50 game? or more like a $80 game?
and adding s'more:
4) will the system be backwards compatible? either sony is developing a system that can read cbs, dvds, and maybe cds which will be enormously expensive, OR they're developing a bd-only system which ditches a library of about a thousand games (one of the larger reasons why ps2 was so succesful)
5) developmers! unless all three next-gen systems are going to use a similar format, there're going to be a lot of games only coming out on one system -- that might sound great for sony fans, thinking they'll get a lot of exclusives... but its not overly appealing to developers.
if, say, the new madden game comes out, it'll take forever to develop a game for a BD, then scale it down considerably to a dvd (if the other two still use that). so, the developers can either spend the extra time and money to make, essentially, a completely different game (or, perhaps, 3 games) or, they'll lose money by only releasing it on one system.
