Oh, this Blu-ray standard is going to really hurt Sony in the long term I suspect. Even if the game sales are spectacular, I fear that there could be some pricing issues later on down the road.

Blu-ray drives for the Playstation 3 will cost Sony a small fortune. It turns out that at the release of the console in the first half of 2006, Sony will have to pay more than $100 per drive it builds in Playstation 3. This is a lot of money, because even in retail you can buy a DVD +RW drive for less than $50 now. This means that Microsoft can get it much cheaper than $50, maybe even half that price, due to the enormous quantity it needs to buy for millions of XboX 360 consoles. [Read the rest]