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windbane on 29 February 2008
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Username2324 said:
windbane said:
Mars said:
Username2324 said:
You guys might not have noticed, but Blu-ray player prices are now below the price of the PS3, so people with no interest in games can save $100 and get a stand alone instead of the PS3, so really, I don't think many of the PS3 sales are people just wanting a blu-ray player, its people who are casual gamers and movie viewers, and hardcore gamers.

QFT

people who only want movies will buy a stand alone BR player, PS3 is not the easiest thing to use to some old guy or granny.

 


well, they should buy a PS3, which is no harder to use than any other player (ok, once you buy the remote). It has auto-start and loads faster, and it's the only current player that will support profile 2.0.


 Actually we're starting to see profile 2.0 stand alones, which just shows even more that not nearly as many PS3s are being sold as players as you think.


Profile 2.0 stand alones have been announced (and not released), and they are both Sony-made. They will be $300 at the cheapest, I believe. From what I understand, the PS3 is the only player currently out that will support Profile 2.0, but please correct me if I'm wrong. I'd stll like to know what those online features entail because if you ask me 50 gigs should be enough for special features and trailers, but maybe that's just me. I agree that not many people are buying the PS3 just for a blu-ray player. I think there are over 100,000,000 gamers out there and most of them watch movies, therefore they see the PS3 has a nice dual-purpose purchase. I thought of it that way at launch and was lucky that Blu-ray won (although I thought it had the advantage). If you look at Blu-ray disc sales versus stand-alone players, you'll realize PS3 owners have been buying Blu-rays already, but not at the same rate as stand-alone owners (this is known because Toshiba used to argue that their stand-alone attach ratio was better and yet Blu-ray consistently outsold HD DVD. That indicates PS3 owners bought movies). To me, that shows they are buying both movies and games (like me) because the game attach ratio is quite good, as the poster above me points out with nice stats. Edit: and that poster is phil. Nice post.