Not much happened over the weekend as you could tell by the length of this post, so I'll just divvy up the proverbial floor space here and go with the flow (ugh, that was blissfully lame; "go with the flow"). As many of you have already heard Blue Ray has officially won the not so epic battle between Blue Ray and HD DVD. It happened a few weeks back at the CES show over on the West Coast and caused some negative press for the one large company still backing the HD format, Toshiba.
As reported by Griffin McElroy of Joystiq.com, Toshiba is set to loose close to 1 billion dollars in "The wake" of the HD DVD Format Battle-Royal.
"According to the Nikkea Business Daily, Toshiba is learning this lesson to the tune of a ¥100 billion loss in revenue this year (to grasp the magnitude of this loss, here it is in numeric form: ¥100,000,000,000) or roughly $986 million in U.S. cash."
Full Article Here: Joystiq Toshiba
This not only makes for a huge blow to the gut for Toshiba but also hampers their performance module for the up coming years, meaning they will be taking much needed assets and revenue earnings and using them to stay afloat amiss this whole format outcome.
My opinion: Simple...make a duel format player that allows the consumer to chose which stinking format to use. I know its too late now, but there are thousands of consumers now befuttled and baffled at their new paper weight High Def Player. To the normal "TV" goer or avid movie watcher, you simply can't tell the difference between the two formats and if you can, well then your in the wrong business. Yes Blue Ray makes more sense (bigger storage, pure color ambiance blahh blahh) but I just don't understand that in the still prevalent wake of the first format war (VHS Vs. Beta Max) we didn't learn a thing or two about "whats right" for the consumer. Well, I guess only time will tell when the next format is on the horizon. I know the industry has stated that this will most likely be the last format war ever, but then again isn't this world all about evolving on an epic grand scale and pace? In the words of a Highlander I once watched every Thursday night on USA back in the day..."There can be only one."
WHAT I'M CURRENTLY REVIEWING:
In the midst of me waiting ohhhh so patiently for Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 (which debuts on shelves tomorrow!) I've been putting together an extensive look/review of two games that have been on shelves for a few months now.
1. Jonh Woo's Hard Boiled for the 360
2. Omega 5 (XBox Live Arcade Shooter)
I've played through both games now and am just trying to get a feel for their multi-player options, which should only take one more session (probably tonight) and then the reviews go up. On a quick note, both games are fun, look nice and play well...however repetition is a bitch.
Look back here tomorrow first thing in the morning to get my first reactions to Rainbow Six 2. I will be heading to Walmart tonight around 12am to pick myself up a copy and give it a whirl for the first time. I am very excited about this release seeing as though the first one was EPIC! See you bright and early.
-Game Hard-
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