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Can Sony Dig the PS3 Out of a Rut?

PS3 is indeed ahead in Europe and Japan and has sold more PS3's than MS did 360's in the same time frame in the US. It's only a matter of when, not if, the PS3 passes 360 in North America.

I much prefer the PSN. I hate online games (as do 95% of the gaming public) and would never pay even $5 a year for it but with Sony I get access for free. And I've been on Xbox Live. It's nothing but kids. If you're a pedophile go for it, you can voice chat and wack your bag but for the rest of us, the PSN is fine, free and getting better all the time.

Blue ray was an incredibly important victory. Digital Downloads aren't replacing optical media anytime soon. Less than 1 in 4 households have a high speed connection in the US and another 1 in 4 have no internet access from their homes period. As a nation, the US ranks about 11th in the world in internet speed, it's not good. That also doesn't take into account the time to download an HD movie, the space it will take up on your hard drive or the fact that most consumers want a hard copy of their movies. Disney doesn't sell millions of DVD's for nothing, kids want to see the same movie over and over. Most adults also like to have a large video library and we don't want to worry about a hard drive crash and loss of all information.

Blu ray will replace DVD as DVD replaced VHS. It took DVD longer to penetrate the market than Blu ray has taken and when TV goes digital in 2/09 and more people own HDTV's demand will increase and more and more people will buy a Blu ray player. I was a fence sitter with HD as I thought an upconverted DVD looked okay. And it does look okay. A Blu ray picture looks amazing however, something you will never want to take a step back from once you see it. And why spend $2,000 for a TV just to watch standard definition movies on it?

Once last thing, the 360's fan sound like an aircraft carrier and yes, Microsoft is a software company, a bad one. Windows is full of holes, bugs, poor UI and is thrust upon us through Microsoft's operating system monopoly. They make the worst web browser out there. The only thing they do to acquire good software is find a company that creates it, buy them then destroy it.