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FishyJoe said:
The billions of dollars they spent on the PS3 could have easily been spent on low cost blu-ray players and content which would have probably won the war faster and cheaper.
Maybe, but there are several valid reasons why Sony would want to use the PS3 as a Blu-ray vehicle.  Not least of these is creating a manufacturing demand that helps lower the price per unit of the Blu-ray components.

And sure, Sony could have pumped out Blu-ray players at a loss instead of PS3s, but channel stuffing only gets you so far before the players are falling off the shelves and your product is a joke.  HD demand is still low enough that having every PS3 double as a Blu-ray player is a genuinely huge asset.  The Trojan Horse strategy is working.

And the DVD size limit may well become restrictive for some games, and the PS3 will benefit if that happens.

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