Blu-ray and the PS3

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Ricardo221 said:

One of the problems with having thousands of consumers using PS3 as just a BluRay player is that Sony sells 2.6 million PS3's in the US but then the highest-selling blockbuster game barely sells 225,000 the first week while other systems are seeing 500,000+ sales opening week.

When X360's user base was 3.5 million, Gears of War sold 1 million in 3 weeks. But even though PS3's user base is nearing 3 million here, a large percentage of them will rarely ever buy a game since they are just watching movies.

So I guess PS3's "installed user base" is really divided into gamers and watchers whereas X360's user base is 100% gamers.

EDIT: By the way, I still haven't opened my free Blu Ray copy of Talladega Nights because I have a standard 27" TV. I don't have the DVD version to compare, but I figure all of the Hi-Def demos I've seen were on glorious 1080p LCD's so the difference is obvious. Will I notice a higher-res difference or will my TV be that much of a low-definition roadblock that I won't be able to say "ooh, pretty"?

I'd say the percentage of people buying PS3's SOLELY to watch Blu-Ray films is pretty small. You cant say 100% of the 360 owners have it for games, when people could buy a HD-DVD attatchment and just watch those on it. Sure, it's not the most practical way of doing things but by your logic its feasible.