ThisGuyFooks on 12 December 2017
| thismeintiel said: Lol, it's always hilarious to see people try and use the DVD excuse over and over. The fact is, as I proved in a thread of mine, the DVD had little to absolutely nothing to do with the success of the PS2. DVD players were available for much cheaper than the $299 the PS2 launched for in 2000. If I remember correctly from that thread, you could get one for $99-$149 that year, and the following year you could get one for $49-$69. The reality was that the PS2 helped DVD sales, not the other way around. DVD sales went up AFTER the PS2 launched in pretty much every region. They weren't doing great and then the PS2 launched and people were like, "Hey, these DVDs are great, let's get a PS2 that can play them and game." It was gamers buying the PS2 saying, "Hey, the PS2 can also play DVDs, I guess we should pick up a couple to test them out." |
Just like the PS3 helped the Blu-Ray sales.
We should remember that there was a format war between the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, which Blu-Ray won of course.
If it wasn't for the PS3, maybe we would have a different format standard nowadays.
