you just said that PSN didn't have them two posts now ago and now you're saying it does.

Feel free to quote me as I did not say this...

I'm making an effort to be cordial to you in this topic but I won't continue if you persist in being rude.

Fair enough.

This doesn't make any sense, what does Blu-Ray have to do with game distribution?

It makes a huge amount of sense. Blu-ray allows for the complete work on 1 disc. It allows cramming every kind of extra feature, special addition, even a whole movie in addition to the game like we get with Watchman the complete experience. For Xbox to ever do anything even remotely close (it's already having to slice and dice the big games across multiple dvds and I am sure paying large amounts of money to dev houses to do it) they will have to develop or rent something like Blu-ray, or go digital only with people adopting very, very large hard drives.

Secondly, Blu-ray locks in people just by existing. Once most people get used to it, and hooked on it, they are sold, especially if they have a nice high end HDTV. Watching the additional Batman content is amazing. Even Red Alert 3 has incredible in game cut scenes that would be cut down to a lower res for disc space on Xbox.

Xbox is losing people to PS3. If they were not, we would not be having this discussion at all and I would still be on Xbox. To end that, Xbox has to find a way to lock people in above and beyond friends list, achievement points, paid subscription, and proprietary discs that can still be pirated. They will have to go digital to compete with PS3 on the Blu-ray level, and to lock in people to 360 software purchase on a level that can't ever be resold. It will lock them in a mindset of having hundreds of dollars spent on a Xbox library and they are less likely to adopt a new piece of hardware because of thinking they will lose or not make use of their investment, whether true or not. They will feel like they have wasted a lot of money if they abandon it at some future point. Rather than face that feeling, most people would rather continue the bad habit of spending, and rationalize that it's the right thing to do, whether it is or isn't.

When it's announced, then go ahead and make that point.

No I will make it now. The pipework for a competitive app market is PSP Go, followed by a program to encourage small apps... You want to pretend it isn't obvious and on the way, go ahead. I am commenting on a comments section of a forum.

As for the PSP 2k-4k line, Sony publicly said during E3 they realize many of their customers prefer pysical media and they are going to continue to produce it. I would want to phase out the 3000 line too, it's embarassing. In addition to those facts, to not offer another PSP would invite people to abandon the platform if they don't want a digital only service. Something that wouldn't be risked when people will more than likely adopt it voluntarily when a phone is added to the mix...

I have been saying it's 10 years away for over a year, but I am pretty sure MS won't be patient, and all the signs I am seeing point to them being a Steam-like console service sooner rather than later. It's more prudent to bail now before you get stuck in a 1 machine DRM system with digital only.

It's prudent to build a collection with a system that is better long term, especially for the physical outlook. Blu-ray is physical media, Sony spent a hell of a lot of money pushing that format, I doubt they intend to abandon it so soon.