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NeoRatt on 26 February 2008
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madskillz said:
dabaus513 said:
madskillz said:
It's not over. When the PS3 is beating the 360 by Wiilike numbers, then I'll believe it.

It's a host of reasons - including folks picking it up as a Blu Ray player with the war over. If you think these folks will just happen to migrate over and use it for gaming, think again. Think about it - sure it's selling, but are software numbers up as well? Sony used their PS brand to pimp Blu Ray. It's paying off, but not for gamers.

The target audiance for people that buy blu ray players are probalby middle aged males.What of sexes stereotypically games? Oh yes, males. Chances are if some one buys a ps3 for blu ray they know what they are getting themseleves into. Id bet that they have kids. Im pretty sure that there are regular blu ray players for the same price if not cheaper than the ps3 anyways.


I'm a member of High Def Digest forum and a number of folks bought a PS3 and haven't bought a single game. Plus, some want to buy a standalone player instead. With the clear winner in the HD format war, folks are looking at what the PS3 offers vs. standalone players. When the PS3 does the same thing and even more than the other players on the market, which would you pick? Do the math.

Make no mistake - yeah, the PS3 is catching fire, but the Wii is a console purely and winning folks. The PS3 has the unique position of being a console and a Blu Ray player. The only way to see if the PS3 is being picked up by folks as a console is to watch the software numbers. If the PS3's attach rates jump, sure ... it's beating the 360 in the console wars. However, if folks are just picking it up because it plays Blu Ray - and I know a guy that did just that - and bought a few Blu Rays, but didn't buy any games, nor does he plan to. He just enjoys his Blu Rays.

When the software attach rates coorespond with the hardware rates, it's on. 


I think someone should sue Sony for monopoly tieing and predatory pricing like they did with Microsoft on IE and Windows.  The only reason blu-ray won over the studios in the format war was because they pumped out PS3's with blu-ray at a substantial loss.  Stand alone sales were in favor of HD DVD until the PS3 started coming along.  They used the PS brand to win the format war...

Sony's attach rate will sink over the next few months because of the blu-ray win.