What if Sony had released Playstation 3 without a Blu-Ray Player

[bouzane]

Bboid said:

bouzane said:
Without Blu-Ray the PS3 would have a significantly lower price point which would have meant a much larger market share for the PS3. With a launch price of $400 and a current price of $250-300 the PS3 would probably be competing effectively with the Wii instead of struggling to catch the 360 since the price has clearly been the PS3's biggest obsticle.

 

 

-$125 BRD +$25 optical dvd drive = $740 production tag at launch, they would not have launched it at $400, probably would have stayed at the 599 price tag. - ~$50 BRD cost now +$20 optical dvd drive and they would still be losing money at the current pricepoint. It was a combination of multiple high priced new technologies with the ps3, you really can't remove 1 and expect a remedy.

I heard that the Blu-Ray drive cost Sony over $200 per unit during the PS3's launch. I'm guessing that those sources weren't so credible. If the Blu-Ray drive is indeed so cheap then cost cutting measures accross the board would have been needed to allow the PS3 to effectively compete.