HD DVD is Dead.

[vain_chan]

After a month of speculation and a whole weekend of exciting squeeing on PS-friendly blogs, it's official:

"Toshiba Quits HD DVD Business""Also adding to Blu-ray's momentum was the gradual increase in sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 home video-game console, which also works as a Blu-ray player. Sony has sold 10.5 million PS3 machines worldwide since

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[vain_chan]

Sony marketed the PS3 stupidly and rushed its release because Halo 3 and the 360 and the Wii were coming out for the holidays and they panicked. So Sony paid for it. =/ I think that it was ultimately an important lesson though, because they have been seriously revamping some of their business practices after getting their gaming division's ass handed to them for the first time in . . . um . . . ever. And hopefully the PS division that rises from the not-quite-ashes will learn from their mistakes in the future.

Now, PS3-friendly games are coming out, and even a few of the multi-platform games that are coming out in 08 look like they will run better on the PS3 than the 360, which hasn't yet happened (though, after the initial load time of a gillion years, DMC4 is supposed to run better and with almost no lag on PS3, as opposed to its XBox version).

As for linking the PS3 to the PSP, the ability was kind of discovered accidentally by gamers before Sony was ready to officially announce it, but it's out and Sony wants to build on it. X3 It's still in its infancy. The goal is to be able to play PS3 games on your PSP by linking them via your wireless on thee Playstation Network. Ultimately, you should also be able to watch Playstation TV on your PSP as well. As I won't have a PS3 for another 3 weeks (hopefully), I haven't done it yet so I don't know how well it works.

I think GamingBits has a walkthrough for how to link them {here}, though, and the PS3 wiki entry has some info on it, too.

<.< >.> My PSP wallpaper is totally the Versus prince sitting imperiously on his throne. *_____* Every time they release a new trailer for this game, my heart palpitates. Screw XIII. I want Versus to be released first.