BluRay in PS3 was Win/Win for Sony

[Final-Fan]

LordTheNightKnight said:

Final-Fan said:

Grey Acumen said:
first off, if the PS3 launched without BluRay, it might have been cheaper, but what would it have had to set itself apart from the 360 at all? Instead of it being "360 is cheaper and has more games and xbox LIVE" it would have been "360 is the same price and has more games and xbox LIVE"

I'm sympathetic to your position, but when you try to claim (apparently) that being at a higher price HELPED the PS3, I just have to laugh.

He didn't write that it was the higher price SOLELY. You're twisting his words.

Maybe. He said that the higher price (and Blu-ray) were what differentiated the PS3 from the 360. I strongly disagree with the allegation that if not for the (expensive) Blu-ray the PS3 it would not have been able to offer unique and appealing alternative features to those of the 360, but in any case that was what he said.

The higher price (and Blu-ray) are the only things different in the "before" and "after" picture he paints in which the hypothetical Blu-ray-less PS3 has nothing to offer that the 360 doesn't do better. If I did twist his words it was unintentional and (IMO) a very understandable error. [edit: of course, I suppose I did make it sound like having the price high for the sake of having it high was what he said, and that of course is wrong. But it is generally accepted that Blu-ray did not benefit most PS3 owners but only a certain percentage of them, making the Blu-ray-playing PS3 less of a value to most than the non-Blu-ray-playing PS3. I believe GreyAcumen agrees with this, and the rest is implied.]

GreyAcumen: care to set me straight?