Sony: Expect Hybrid Movie/Game Blu-rays This Year

Hmm... Could be interesting to see a "game" that is really a movie with playable parts every 10 minutes. It would have to be straight-to-Blu-ray though.

love the idea. curious about the execution though. so does the new bluray release go from 29.99 to 59.99 now?

somehow i don't get the warm and fuzzies when it comes to debating on what sony will do price wise...

Sony is just tying to eliminate it's competition with this kind of moves. Think few years from now, when BR starts being the major movie medium and DVDs slowly being phased out. So you can buy yourself a movie on BR or you can buy yourself a movie on BR with a game that plays only on the Playstation 3. The prices will be higher but I guess at that time you'll get bargain movies with games for the same money you get bargain DVDs now.

Now if they start packing BR movies with little but fun arcade games with little to no price increase, their Playstation brand will be in most households around the globe, even though people don't own the Playstation system. But for those who have it's a nice bonus and that tactic might sell them a lot of hardware...

I don't really see why people is seeing this as bad. Pricing aside, it sounds kind of cool. Like say they bundle The Dark Knight with the new Batman game.

Why are people negatively freaking out over this? It sounds like it will be a BR Movie + whatever the licensed game for the movie is on the same disc, obviously at a lower price than the movie + game combined separately or it wouldn't make sense at all.

I get that licensed games usually suck, but if you ever do want both how is this a negative thing? It's just another option for interested consumers. For example, I'm sure a lot of people would have bought the Spider-man 2 game + movie on a single disc if it was cheaper than buying them separately - the obvious caveat being if these movies are proprietary in some way and can only be played on PS3s (but realistically, how many PS3 owners own other BR players anyway).

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of

This pretty much sums up Sony right now...

Wow, this sounds fucking retarded. I cant wait for the fail.

Not sure what I think of this. A big hurdle would be to make sure that the movies can still be played on other players, otherwise I know I personally wouldn't ever consider purchasing these combos. Not that I really ever consider purchasing movie-based games anyway, but if you can't watch the movie anywhere but on your game system then this would be an epic failure.

Sony expects a lot of things.

Sony, not secure in it's leadership in the mediocrity sector, today announced a new initiative to bring the company to the absolute pinnacle of failure. MOVIES AND THEIR TIE IN GAMES ON THE SAME MOTHER FUCKING DISC, YO.

Situation 1:

lower tech games that can be played on any bluray player + movie. Probably won't fail too hard, but people wouldn't want to pay more for it.


Situation 2:

medium to high tech games that can be played on any bluray player + movie. I don't know if this is even possible. Can normal blu ray players play games? Probably won't fail too hard, but people will want to pay less than the two would normally cost combined. 60 instead of 80.

Situation 3:
games that can only run on ps3 + movie. Like 2 but more of the same. Maybe they can charge more. Maybe less. This could be confusing to shoppers. They might see "spiderman 4", stop reading, and assume, holy crap, spiderman 4 blu ray costs $70?! I'll just buy the dvd.

All in all, I see this possibly hurting the blu-ray format or at least the ps3. Or it could be very lucrative. They could end up with a "monopoly" of sorts. Depends on how awesome or not the games end up being I suppose.


I could easily see Final Fantasy taking advantage of this. Oh wait, the game already is a movie with boring level grinding inbetween scenes. At least, that's how I left it at #8.

Called this a couple months back. Seemed like a good move that MS couldn't follow. As long as these hybrid discs are competitively priced this might work out. Makes the timing of the game completion and DVD release date pretty tight though so hopefully game quality won't be diminished in the rush.

$70 movie/games coming soon!

$80-90 movies/game discs.


Uhh, I don't think that will go over well.

Ah the stink of desperation.

Finally I can have all of those shitty games based on the movies I buy!

Too bad most movie games SUCK.

There are exceptions, but I think we can agree that the majority of movie-based games are not all that great.

I'm pretty sure this is called "Metal Gear Solid"