Remember when you’d buy a Disney DVD and one of the extras happened to be a game-like feature that seemed under-produced and needed more development time? Now, imagine that game in the special features section is a PlayStation 3 title. Is your mind blown yet? We’re right there with you.
According to SCEA hardware marketing manager John Koller, Sony is already hard at work producing the first batch of movie/game Blu-ray hybrid discs, which are set to release later this year. Koller didn’t divulge what type of gaming content would be made available on the BDs, but expect it to be possible demo tie-ins much like what Square Enix is doing with Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete.
"The way that we see the future is that the movie and the game are placed on the same disc," states Koller. "We will definitely see this stuff this year."
It’s only a matter of time before you’re sitting on the couch with your family, preparing to watch a movie when they realize that they’re going to have to watch you game for a bit before the movie gets going. You and Sony: 1, family: 0.