Should the PS3 have had Blu Ray?

[Gilgamesh]

Jay520 said:

Gilgamesh said:

Jay520 said:

Gilgamesh said:
It got people buying the PS3 strictly for the blu-ray player when there was very little interesting games. So yeh it helped.

Yes, Blu Ray was a pretty big advantage for the PS3. However, without Blu Ray, it would have had an even greater advantage: Lower price.

Well I doubt it'd be that much of a difference, instead of Sony losing $200 plus on each console at launch they'd be still losing about $100 with a DVD player. Still losing a lot of money.

Maybe I should research some more. I thought it was accepted that Blu Ray (along with the cell) was a huge reason for the PS3's high cost.

Everything was overpriced in the PS3 lol This is from early 2010 and should give a rough idea of what the components cost at launch (PS3 cost about $850 to make at launch), hard to find the 2006-2007 break down of each components, Isupply deleted it or something? So I'm sure blu-ray was over $100 at the begining according to Isupply Sony was losing $250 for every console when the PS3 launched, lets completely take out the optical drive and assume that the Blu-ray player cost $150 at launch, that'd still be a $100 loss on every console for the PS3 when it first released. So even if they had a DVD player they'd still be losing over $100 at launched, they would just get out of the red quicker.

But it's hard to say now, the more PS3's sold the more sales for games, so it might of even out a little better by having Blu-ray.