Time To Put The PS2 DVD Myth To Rest

[thismeintiel]

The_Yoda said:

thismeintiel said:

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Great post.  I think where people are getting confused is that many gamers used their PS2's to play DVDs a lot.  However, this doesn't mean that people were buying it for that function.  What happened is people bought it for gaming and just ended up using one of its features.  It's why DVD sales went up so much when the PS2 launched in each country.  People weren't waiting for the PS2 to buy a DVD player.  Especially not when it was at least twice the price of a cheaper player.  No, PS2 just convinced gamers to start switching over to DVD after they bought it.  If you got it, might as well use it.

We know everyone thinks like you correct? The bolded runs contrary to your argument and the underlined is just your reasoning why you think that happened, you can't possibly claim to know the intenet of 155 million households? Hell we have people in this thread saying they bought it for the DVD player and the gaming was the added feature.  I'm not one that has said it only sold because of the DVD functionality but it seems like you are grasping at straws and some of your assertations seem a bit off base (i.e. black friday pricing that happens one day out of the year and with VERY limited amounts of stock)

That doesn't run contrary at all.  And the underlined is the reason for the vast majority of people who bought the PS2.  Otherwise, the attach ratio wouldn't have been so high.  Instead it almost doubled that of the DS, which sold almost the same amount as the PS2. So, yea, I'll use actual data to prove my points, not anecdotal evidence from a few random people online.

Also, funny how you latch onto someone showing the more top of the line models and their crazy prices, while I actually show proof of the lower end.  The $99 price was in fact Black Friday pricing, which I never claimed it wasn't.  However, those that ranged from $149-$159 were not priced for Black Friday.  It also doesn't change the fact that by 2003, you could get a DVD player for under $50.  Yes, these were lower end models, but guess what, so was the DVD player found in the PS2.  No one who wanted the best quality video was going to get a PS2.  And those looking to get a cheap DVD player would have gotten a $50 one.