Time To Put The PS2 DVD Myth To Rest

[The_Yoda]

Shadow1980 said:

thismeintiel said:

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.

Yep. It can be thought of like all the streaming video apps and whatnot on more recent systems. I see people using Netflix or watching Blu-rays on their XBOs all the time. But nobody buys a PlayStation or Xbox for those apps when there's far cheaper alternatives. People buy consoles for the games. Those other things are just nice little features that are convenient to have.

All other things being equal if the X-box had everything (your friends, same first second and third party games) the PS had except streaming apps which would you buy? Outside of brand loyalty if all else was equal then I can see no reason to buy a competing product when one has more features than the other.