I bought my PS3's for the blu-ray player first, and the games second only after the price dropped because here in Canada you cannot get a blu-ray player easily at a store for less then $399, the price of a 40Gb PS3... So I thought, might as well buy a gaming capable machine too.
If the blu-ray group would wake up and force Sony to lower the cost of blu-ray consistently to below that of a PS3 (in Canada), I would own a bunch of blu-ray players instead.
So yes, when the price dropped it helped me buy a PS3...