Blu-Ray won’t last PS3 life cycle says Samsung

Blu-Ray might have beaten down HD-DVD and helped Sony sell more PS3s, but the company’s plans for a 10 year PS3 life cycle have been dashed by Samsung, which claims Blu-Ray only “has five years left”.

Sony has been pinning its hopes on the format to make the PS3 future-proof, but speaking to Pocket-Lint, Andy Griffiths, director of consumer electronics at Samsung UK said: “I think it [Blu-ray] has 5 years left, I certainly wouldn’t give it 10.”

He went on to admit that 2008 is Blu-Ray’s year, however.

“It’s going to be huge”, he told Pocket-lint. “We are heavily back-ordered at the moment.”

It’s hard to see another format taking over as soon as 2013 though, even if Sony itself admits the format has reached its technical limit, and can’t be improved.

And with the PS3 having a good year in sales it means more people are getting on the Blu-Ray ladder and building up disc collections.

What do you reckon? How long does Blu-Ray have left? Will we be downloading all our films by 2013? Tell us what you think in the comments section below.

Out now | From £299.99 | PlayStation 3 | (via Pocket-Lint)

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