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Kasz216 on 01 March 2008
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BMaker11 said:
Kasz216 said:
BMaker11 said:
its not "casual" gamers they need to have....it's mass market appeal that they need. With blu-ray, much like DVD at the time, people will be able to have a piece of hardware with movie playback, along with video games to play. I said this some time ago, but the PS2 was a lot of peoples first dvd player, and the same should happen with PS3 and Blu-ray.....when HD reaches the masses, and Blu ray sales shoot up, expect PS3 sales to jump as well....I mean, it has already been outselling the 360 in NA.........

Casual gamers are the mass market. Your "i but a lot of games" hardcore gamer is actually a very small minority.


I know this, but what I was trying to say was that the PS3 should go after the market it's secondary functions intended, the movie market. It's so much larger than the video game market that it will only help the PS3. Add on to that that anyone with a brain would know that the PS3 is a game machine too, and there you go.

With everything going digital in 2009, chances are people will pick up new TVs, instead of just those converters, so the argument everyone uses, "Blu ray requires you to get a new tv in order to reap its' benefits".....that will be moot.

Basically, HD will become mainstream, Blu ray is shaping up to be the next DVD, and that only supplements PS3 sales, seeing how it's one of the cheapest players out.

However, I think I may have misconstrued something casuals. But if casuals really are the mass market, as you say, then yes Blu ray will be enough, because BD will become the standard soon.


Hard to say. The PS2's DVD player wasn't infact a big selling feature, and DVD players were already 100 and below when it came out. Those DVD players were also way better as the PS2's were at displaying the PS2's the PS2's output being pretty horrible.

People try and look back at it and say it was a big feature now... but it really wasn't and was mostly just a neat coincidence for kids who didn't have it hooked up to their main TVs.

I gotta think most people, at least in the USA would be selfconsious spending over a thousand dollars on HDTVs and a Sound System and then have they Blu-ray player be a videogame system.

I'd expect a lot of people to perfer stand alones even if it was inferior just out of vanity. Which is all i imagine that would save Sony from the other Blu-ray makers to lower their pricepoints below the PS3s.

A PS3 afterall is way more expensive to make then a regular Blu-ray player.


That's all just for the movie casuals who are brought in because of blu-ray.  That doesn't even take into account the new casuals, the sports casuals or most of the biggest group, the "i only buy a couple games casual."