PlayStation 3 will use Blu-Ray discs - confirmed

Well, it’s official folks. Sony has confirmed that the PS3 will be using Blu-Ray disc technology for their games. To me this makes sense since the Blu-Ray discs have six times the storage capacity of regular DVDs.

Sony Computer Entertainment has officially confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will use the Blu-Ray disc technology, an evolution of the DVD format which provides six times more storage space than conventional DVD discs.

Confirming reports which have been floating around for months, Sony officially announced its intention to build Blu-Ray into the next generation PlayStation in a statement last night.

Blu-Ray, as the name suggests, uses blue laser light to read discs, rather than the current red lasers, and achieves its higher data storage volumes because blue light has smaller wavelength than red light, and can therefore read smaller data points more accurately.