Steve Masters heads to the release party for Wanted on Blu-Ray and gets a
sneak peak at the upcoming video game, Wanted: Weapons of Fate.

After the dust settled between the two relatively similar formats, HD-DVD and Blu-ray, it seemed like Blu-ray was the official winner. This seems contrary to conventional logic because adult film companies, by far the largest sellers of home video discs, almost roundly accepted HD-DVD as the new standard. So the only way Blu-ray could possibly have won without the support of porn companies is by bringing their product to a new market—but was that market really looking for another physical video format?

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Why is the Blu-ray player on the PS3 important? This question has been addressed again and again; it even echoes a similar question asked ages ago about the PS2 and its DVD player. I’ve defended the PS3 before, although I don’t own one, though I will in the future (if I can ever afford it), but that’s irrelevant. Let’s ignore the PS3 for a minute and just look at the bonus of having a Blu-ray player included. Anime fans, pay attention.

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With the release of the Xbox 360 in November of 2005, Microsoft had a full year to gain a majority of the market share, and did so with the release of great game exclusives, and a reasonably affordable next-gen console. A year later, the Wii and the PS3 were released, and while two years later, the PS3 sales have been somewhat sluggish, losing Sony $3 billion dollars. When Metal Gear Solid 4 came out, the PS3 definitely picked itself up by its bootstraps and began to sell competitively…two years too late.

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Flashback to a couple of months ago, in mid-February, when the talk of Technology Town was of only one thing: Blu-ray, baby. Blu-ray. It just sounds so cool off the tongue. Blu-ray is our conclusive victor, our sanctioned savior – our official new high definition format. Drop to your knees, you’re not worthy.

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