And still being thumped by Wii since November 06 

I concur. It will only help sales.

I can't possibly see sales going down, only up.

Should help sales. Question is will it help game sales?

Say it is 10%. How much of that 10% is from people who would of got 360? How many is people who just want a blu-ray player, and may pick up Madden or something? How many are people who just thought the PS3 was too expensive and this pushes them over the edge? (which helps momentum but isn't a boost in sales so much as a shift in which the sales occur.)

You know what would be funny? If future Wii consoles got built-in Blu-Ray players.

 lolz, yeah that would be funny, but you know what would be even funnier is if nintendo went back to cartidge format, Casuals games FTW!!!

 SSDs are basically cartridges.  Computing is going that way and IMHO so will consoles again.

It appears that people seem to be of the opinion that there are some who watch movies and like HD, and others that play games. I do both, and I'm sure a lot of others do too, so if I hadn't already purchased a system yet for watching my movies and playing my games because the format war was still ongoing, what do you think I'd go and buy now?