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Originally Posted by Spiffy
Winning the whole BlueRay/HD DVD thing probably was a nice leg up for them, so they're hardly in trouble.
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Yep, that was a huge win for them. Though it did come at a high cost. They dominated the video game market for over 10 years with the PS1 and PS2.
But they forced Blu Ray into the PS3 to win the video format war, and that launched the console at $500-600 (mainly $600 as the $500 models sold out quickly and were very scarce the whole time they were available) which cost them that dominance and has left them stuck in third place in the video game market now.
Time will tell if winning the HD movie disc war was worth that trade off.