Paramount cited Sony's next-generation PlayStation 3 game console as a key factor behind its decision. Due next spring, the next-generation console will come equipped with a Blu-ray DVD player and that could drive demand for movies on Blu-ray discs.

This could carry the day. I've heard that the biggest title for PS/2 for the first year or so it was out was The Matrix -- as in the movie. When it launched, PS/2 was the cheapest DVD player you could buy in Japan by a fairly wide margin.

Rival camps keep slugging it out in DVD format war