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Originally Posted by gladiatoro
Prices will come down on this new invention when blue ray came out (only a couple of years ago)the players were 2000$ now you can buy one for 199.00 and next year they will be 99.00 and so on ,by the time the NEW XBOX 720 comes out it should have solid state ready to go at a cheap price and kill the PS3 or PS4 , then blue ray disks will be used as WIND CHIME'S  |
Wow so much biased, complete misinformation and
in this post it's unbelievable.
Ok first of all get the facts straight. Blue-ray players NEVER started out at $2,000, nor were they $1,000, hell they didn't even start out at $500. When they were first released they ranged in price between $350 and $400 depending on the brand. Currently the good, name brand players range in price between $250-$300 (I should know, I just bought 2 this week for Christmas presents). Yes you can find some Korean or Chinese made ones for $200 but if you bother to read the reviews they don't last more then 6 months. Since generally speaking it takes 5 years for new technology to reduce in price by half, these prices are normal.
Ok now for solid state prices. Using the same 5 year rule, in 5 years a memory stick with the same capacity as a current blue-ray disk will still cost $100 each not including the cost of the game developers which will probably add another $50 due to the length of development time, pay rates of game developers, the cost of production, shipping, and advertisement. That's $150 for a GAME. The system itself will have to be double what the PS3 was when it was first released. If you thought $600 was a lot, can you imagine spending over $1,200? Let's not forget that the PS3 will still be out and producing the same game for $60 and that IF the next Xbox goes solid state it will not nor can not be backwards compatible. During this same 5 year time span, larger capacity Blue-ray disks will have come out with two to four times the capacity that these same solid state memory sticks have and still be a fraction of the cost. The next Xbox will be out before this 5 year time frame so those costs will actually be higher. So I will say again it is not, nor will not be economical for a gaming system to go solid state for at least 10 years.