Time To Put The PS2 DVD Myth To Rest

[Landguy]

thismeintiel said:

Landguy said:

Not sure how old you are, but whatever info that you have is wrong.  I managed Best Buy Stores at that time.  During the 1st 6 months after the PS2 lauch, it was hard to get due to limited stock.  But, after that it was the best selling DVD player for about a year and a half.  Yes, there might have been some super cheap dvd players eventually, but good dvd players cost $400+.  At Best Buy, we literally sold a PS2 to anyone wanted a good dvd player or high end video set up.  I was a manager and I must have sold a 1,000 PS2's myself as DVD players.  The hardest thing to get was the PS2 DVD remote.

So, YES, the PS2 had a huge amount of sales due to the DVD function.  

Sorry, but I have actual facts in my OP.  With links. Not anecdotal evidence that I'm trying to recall from 16-17 years ago.  PS2 helped DVD. Not the other way around.  Not saying it was never bought for a DVD player, but with much cheaper options around, even for good ones, you would have been a fool to do so.  At the very most, 2M-3M sales were because of the feature. And even then, I'd think it would be overestimating it.

Nice try, but like I said, I was a store manager.  I had over 200 employees at my store working for me.  This wasn't my directive, but a corporate plan for all best buy stores.  Best buy didn't make any money on the system sales at all, as they were sold at cost.  The money was made on cables, remotes, surge, and some games/movies.  Sure, a corporate directive is anecdotal to only hundreds of best buy stores, but it was common knowledge at the time that the ps2 was being sold as a dvd player.  if anything it helped the ps brand expand and i am sure that millions of people bought games too.

I do agree that it didn't make or break the system.  but even if it added 2-5 million sales, that concept carried over to the ps3.  it created a whole generation of people sold on the playstation being the best dvd/bluray player out there.