NJ5 on 06 August 2008
| axumblade said: It doesn't surprise me. The PS3 was at one point the least expensive blu-ray player for a while. Why spend 400 bucks on just a blu-ray player when you can get a blu-ray player and a gaming console at the same time? |
True, and it's not a good situation for non-gamers or even for Blu-Ray.
Imagine you don't care at all about games. After seeing that the cheapest Blu-Ray player is a PS3, you will quite likely postpone or cancel your Blu-Ray purchase. You will feel the price is too high, and some people have an anti-game bias which would prevent them from buying a PS3.
Frankly, I think their Blu-Ray strategy was a joke for quite some time. PS3's price cuts ended up hurting standalone Blu-Ray players a lot, and many people still have the idea that the PS3 is the cheapest player.
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