| DonFerrari said: Being on VGC for a long time and looking at all the discussions over it and evidence. I just gave you a very strong thing to look at. PS2 sold 150M+ consoles and 1.5B+ SW tie ratio of 10:1, PS3 sold 87M consoles and 1B SW tie ratio of 11.5:1 . Those aren't that much different from the average on the gen they were into. So even though there were people that bought PS2 for DVD and PS3 for BD that isn't on a quantity that would really have changed much the totals. Do you have evidence for this "lot of people"? Just look at how many bought the HD-DVD for Xbox (not many), or how the BD adoption rate was slow because there was a war format (at the time it ended BD players were already much cheaper than PS3). Considering most outlets claim the war was won because of PS3 having the BD, and at that time PS3 was below 20M or so (go check how much DVD players were sold before the war started, or how many BD players sold after it became the standard) and you'll see that this amount is very little (and sure that most of that 20M were diehard fans of Sony). https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/05/sony_cuts_price_of_blu-ray_player/ Price of the BD players dropped quite fast after the format war finished. So PS3 wasn't the cheapest player for more than some months. |
"Sony has cut $100 (£50/€74) off the recommended retail price of its new next-generation DVD player in an attempt to forge ahead in the Format Wars. The BDP-S300 now costs $499 (£250/€370) - half what the company's first dedicated Blu-ray player cost when it was launched six months ago"
At this point in time (June 2007) Sony had cut the price of it's 60GB variant to $499. Just a few months later they introduced a new model that was 40GB for $399. This source proves nothing aside from dramatically dropping costs of Blu-Ray hardware which was already well documented. PS3 was still a very cheap Blu-Ray player and still had more features. It wasn't until after 2008 that PS3 was no longer had a majority of the market for Blu-Ray players.
From what I found, in January of 2008 Toshiba announced that only 1M HD-DVD players were sold. HD-DVD was barely part of the format war, and every single sale of PS3 counted towards Blu-Ray sales. By the end of 2007 19.25M Blu-Ray players were sold. Which, at this time, there were 12.85M PS3's sold. PS3's took a significant portion of the Blu-Ray sales market and absolutely helped push that format as the winner.
