With all the bad mojo about Sony recently, it’s nice to see someone back Sony up on something. And that “someone” is the president of a big gaming company.

Midway’s president and CEO David Zucker thinks that Blu-ray is an asset for Sony and the PS3 in the upcoming console war. That’s something I totally agree with, and I like the fact that the president of a large gaming company agrees with me. I had to give him a call to convince him to come out of the closet!

Not only that, he also thinks that the price of the PS3 isn’t so bad. Remember that the PS3 will sell for $600, and that the PS3 Jr will go for $500. Mr. Zucker says “There’s a lot in the PlayStation 3; think about the fact that you get Blu-ray, the next-generational leap in DVD – you get a Blu-ray player in the machine. When you think about that and some of the feature sets that come with it, including the hard drive, it seems like a reasonable price for the early launch. Presumably that price will come down over time as they move through the console cycle.”

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