Come on I play blu-ray on my ps3 all the time.

We will never know how many, if any, are bought primarily or solely as blu ray player.

My brother won an 'award' from work which gave him the ability to buy anything for up to $500 on the company and he bought a PS3 as a Blu-Ray player; he has rented FEAR, bought Madden and was given NHL 2008 as a gift but those are the only games he has played on it.

Everyone I know who has bought a PS3 picked one up because of the Blu-Ray player; they have all (pretty much) stated that they would have bought an XBox 360 if they were only interested in a gaming machine. The fact is that if you're looking for a Blu-Ray/HD-DVD player and have some interest in gaming that the PS3 may be a good purchase simply because a $200 to $300 HD movie player and a $350 XBox 360 is far more expensive than a PS3.

The real risk for the PS3 long term is this rational purchase may not remain so rational for long ... The format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray has driven down the price of players faster than any format before, by January 1st 2009 there may be sub-$100 players on the market which would encourage people to buy seperate components.

Sorry, but it is "Blu-Ray", not "Blue-Ray" but yeah, it's going to help PS3 if it wins, but if it loses, the PS3 being a blu-ray player could actually hurt the system.

I use my PS3 as a blu ray player. But I think HD dvd will win, it's a more familiar system if you understand what I'm saying

I bought mine as a game player. I have 7 games now and 3 Blu Ray movies.

I have yet to see a Blu-ray movie played outside of Circuit City or Best Buy.

 then you dont deal with PS3 owners. There is a reason why Blu-ray has been kicking the hell out of HD-DVD in software for the last year. 

For example with PSN titles. I have about 35 games and 12 blu-ray movies. 

I do love blu-ray, I own 62 now; however, that's not why I bought my ps3...I bought my ps3 for games. I barely knew what blu-ray was until I got my ps3 and HDTV.

And software isn't doing that bad on the ps3...most third party games like CoD4 & Assassin's Creed outsell the ps3 versions on the 360 around 3 to 1 in America--about the same ratio of 360 consoles over ps3's in America--makes sense. (Or in simpler terms, CoD4 should sell 3x more copies on the 360 because there are 3x more 360's than ps3's in America.)

Blu-ray = fail

HD-DVD = fail

DVD = epic win

That's final. Format wars are stupider than console wars. Don't buy any HD garbage.