By Brian Ashcraft, 8:44 PM on Wed Sep 27 2006, 104 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Ah, everyone's favorite deathly pale Sony Computer exec Phil Harrison says that Blu-ray hasn't hit the PS3 with "unnecessary cost." As all know, Blu-ray players are expensive, and putting such expensive hardware in the PLAYSTATION 3 logically makes it PRICEY. Not so, says Phil. He points out:

There's this sort of misunderstanding that the Blu-ray disc player for movies is somehow burdening the console with unnecessary cost. That is completely not true. We put our Blu-ray disc functionality in the console purely from a game design point of view. Once we had that storage capacity on Blu-ray disc, adding the movie playback functionality was extremely cost-effective, [the cost] is actually non-existent.

Hmmm... I thought Sony was putting Blu-ray in the PS3 to win a format war. Good to know I was completely wrong. Brian Ashcraft

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