Wiis and 360s will be flooding the shelves come this holiday – with millions of gamers desperate and tired of waiting to get their next-gen fix – where do you think they’ll turn?

People will have either a Wii or a 360 or both – with more, better games on each – and will be content to spend their money on them alone while Sony bubbles around unable to fill mass demand for another entire year.

And where is Toshiba – right on track. The “soft launch” was successful, they’ve sold 50,000 players already and everythings good to go for the new year: See this thread/article: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=718697

And the above only talks about the HD-A1 and HD-XA1 players. This says nothing of the RCA players that have been sold through major retailers like Walmart and of the new European Toshiba players being launched before the PS3, or if companies like Lite-On introduce their HD DVD player in 2006 (and signs seem to be pointing to the fact they will). It’s rumored Denon or another company is coming out with a player also and that we’ll see another under $1000 HD DVD player on the market this fall as well (though that might be the Lite-On).

Anyway, this is all amazing news. I never would have imagined it. Hopefully, the competition from Sony exists enough to spur HD-DVD on in getting better and better than the mind-blowing product/value it already is – doing so over the course of the next 6-8 months – but then by that time, the tide will have effectively turned almost completely and we’ll have one HD format for life that we can love, support, and depend on without having to think about the war ever again.

BD can live on as the media of the PS3 and as a PC storage solution. Sony will have yet another wake-up call regarding their arrogance and at the end of the day – the consumer will win becuase we’ve forced them to change.

All signs point to this not being too much of an exagerrated prediction! Here’s hoping…*prays*

Also, more interestingly, the importance of Japan’s domestic market seems to drop, at least in Sony’s eyes.

The PS3 was their ace in the hole but further delays only raise suspicion as to the reasons. Most would assume technical difficulties that HD DVD seems to have evaded.

Now, if all the studios would publicly support HD DVD, it would be a no brainer at this junction which player to buy.