PlayStation 3 gets game-plus-film ‘hybrid’ discs, first one comes on two discs

July 22, 2009 · Posted in Gadgets

If you have the dominant high-def optical storage format — which can serve both movies and games with equal aplomb — built right into your consoles, shouldn’t you be leveraging that synergy? Sony certainly thinks so, and it seems Warner Bros agrees. The two heavyweight sluggers have today announced the very first “hybrid” Blu-ray retail package: the Director’s Cut of Watchmen is being sold together with the PS3 version of Watchmen: The End is Nigh Parts 1 and 2 for $49.99.

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