A controversial view - PS3 now hurting BD?

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Munkeh111 said:
The lack of good PS3 games?

When a PS3 is sold, it adds to the potential user base of bds. The more bds sold the better. However, by somebody buying a PS3 instead of dedicated bd player, who is being hurt? It is the other hardware manufacturers, and why would Sony care about that. I am sure Sony would prefer someone buys a PS3 instead of one of their BD players, as that means more money for them in the future with games and bd sales and expanding the PS3's userbase, encouraging more investement there.

It does not stop the movie studios from making bds as they are not the ones making the hardware

 

Yes. What's the idea in making BD a huge issue instead of the lack of appealing titles in the library? As you can see, the better the PS3 library is becoming, the less people use BD as a selling point for PS3.

 

It's hurting Sony aswell, if they are selling PS3 at a loss, they lose money, if they are selling PS3 with less profit than standalone players, they make less money. Let's take a theoretical situation, where all the other HW manufacturers would stop making BD players, BD would soon end up being new UMD and be seen as "PS3 proprietary format". That would cause the studios to drop support.

 

The potential of selling their movies to customers is very important. Basically any PS3 owner could buy BD movies, but since the majority of consoles traditionally are found in kids rooms, plugged into small SDTV, it is creating uncertainities for the userbase. And today, the studios really don't want to make bad investments.