windbane on 02 March 2008
| mike_intellivision said: A few quick notes. While I think DJMeister made some good points, I use my Xbox as a DVD player. The PS2 does not work as well and there are some things it will not play. So to say that the PS2 was the only DVD player is not true. ... What is true is that it was the only unit that could play DVDs without any additional purchases. (Remember, the Xbox remote was separate and the system would not function without it). Of course, there are various remotes for various PS2s ... but that's another story. I was in Wal-Mart today, the lone BR player was only about $20 less than the PS3 (40GB). I didn't check to see if it was upgradable though. But if you talk to a sales drones at game/electronics stores, they will tell you that many of their PS3 sales are for movie playback only and the potential to sell game software has not yet emerged. (This sounds in some ways like the Nuon -- it was a line of DVD players that had extra gaming elements to them. There was four special versions of movies and a handful of games released for it, such as Tempest 3000 by Jeff Minter. But they fell by the wayside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuon ) So the cost and technology arguement appears to hold true -- at least for right now. It is the same thing that spurred early PS2 sales in Japan when for over a year it was the least expensive DVD player available in that market. Whether or not though those purchasers of the unit for AV purposes in NA will become gamers (as they appeareed to become -- or maybe always were -- in Japan) is the big Sony software questions. Early indiciations are that many will not ... though that could change. Mike from Morgantown |
Even though I'm repeating myself here: PS3 owners have contributed to blu-ray disc sales because hd dvd attach ratios for stand-alone players were higher and yet blu-ray outsold them an entire year by about 3 to 2. Meanwhile, the software attach ratio the last several months is better than the Wii and 360, so the games are selling as well. Concusion: PS3 owners are buying movies and games. Most game players like movies. People are going to buy the PS3 because it has great games and it's a Blu-ray player.
