I Hate Thanksgiving

[Gooch]

also the fact that Sony is banking entireally on BluRay succeeding when they have a calvacade of failures....MiniDisc, Beta, any many other areas where they stubbornly held on to something well past the point of no return. now, instead, they pile into BluRay with very little strengths beyond graphics on a device and market that is looking for convergence and networking. microsoft, warts and all, are still with an advantage there, and banking on HD DVD, and is not beholden to it failing like Sony is. the HD DVD is a seperate piece to the Xbox 360, and keeps costs to $300 for a base, $400 for a HD, and another $200 if you want a HD DVD ability. These give people choice and the fact they have a year already in market plus some very savvy software moves (purchasing good game developers...Bungie, Rare, etC) they also assure consumers of good games.

I see Sony as actually never moving ahead of Xbox 360 and even behind the Wii (who gets the children market plus old Nintendo fans). I am not a stockholder or financial wiz, but for a layman like me, I see this is Sony's deathknell down the line. these days, the new market is choice, cost and selection.