A controversial view - PS3 now hurting BD?

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Onyxmeth said:

bdbdbd said:

Onyxmeth said:

If it's an issue now, I don't think it'll be an issue for long. Aren't Blu-Ray players permanently lower than the price of the PS3 now? I don't mean every model of course, but some of them are. It should be able to self sustain itself at this point.

Yes, they are. And have been for a while now. The point was, that if you buy a PS3 instead of standalone BD player to play your BD:s, the studios can't be sure whether the console is bought for games alone or to play movies. And of course, i wasn't saying that PS3 would be killing BD, only hurting it.

 

I think they have other methods of figuring out if the investment is worth it. They sell the movies on BluRay. If the software sales of BluRay are increasing, then it continues to be a good investment. If it starts decreasing, then it's an investment that may be dropped in the future. They don't need to know the hardware sales at all. Software trends will do the job. They are on the rise, so BluRay is a good investment. That's my opinion on the matter also, that BD is a good and profitable venture.

 

 

Profitable - yes, but the companies look also the part whether the (expected) profit margins are good enough. The current economic downturn isn't going to increase the confidence in the high-end entertainment market. What the studios want, is to increase their margins. This doesn't mean that they would cut away their BD support, but to re-evaluate the the BD releases.