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Renar on 29 February 2008

MikeB showed an interesting poll by Engadget on another thread.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/27/poll-whats-it-going-to-take-to-make-you-buy-a-ps3/

I already own one, so I guess I'm ahead of the curve. Suckers.15617 (26.0%)

Now if Engadget's poll really statistically covered all of the PS3 buyers, current and potential, it would mean PS3 has another 30M sales in its lifetime.  Possible, I suppose.  But more likely, the poll % owned is much too high because casuals are not going as much to Engadget to vote in the poll.

My question is: Will casuals buy PS3 like they did with PS2?  If so, will it be only as a Blu-Ray player, and not games?  (a bit like the PSP where it sells, but low game ratio) 

Has/Will the Wii taken away too many of the casuals, so especially if another company or Sony itself comes out with a cheap Blu-Ray only player, that would be bought rather than the PS3?

Your thoughts?

 



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ZenfoldorVGI on 29 February 2008

Nah man. It's Blu-Ray or nothing, but no casual gamer will buy a PS3 unless its for someone else, or to watch movies on. Buying the thing for Blu-Ray is bad news for software sales anyway.



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DarkNight_DS on 29 February 2008

Hmmm... my casual games for PS2 experience was mostly with Katamari and GTA. I loved Katamari, a new Katamari like game and a decent price on the hardware would probably have gotten me on board. The PS2 had a lot of casual games, I'd just say that none of them were really stand out titles that haven't been since done to death. I'd like to see a lot of new IP's on the PS3 which target the more casual scene and no I don't think that Home offers your average casual gamer a single thing. Way too complicated.



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mesoteto on 29 February 2008

that is not going to be enough---all sony ads do right now is heavy music and loaded with their ultra video games like this one....



what about this makes you think casual games will be happening



 

NJ5 on 29 February 2008
Renar said:

MikeB showed an interesting poll by Engadget on another thread.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/27/poll-whats-it-going-to-take-to-make-you-buy-a-ps3/

I already own one, so I guess I'm ahead of the curve. Suckers.15617 (26.0%)

Now if Engadget's poll really statistically covered all of the PS3 buyers, current and potential, it would mean PS3 has another 30M sales in its lifetime. Possible, I suppose. But more likely, the poll % owned is much too high because casuals are not going as much to Engadget to vote in the poll.

My question is: Will casuals buy PS3 like they did with PS2? If so, will it be only as a Blu-Ray player, and not games? (a bit like the PSP where it sells, but low game ratio)

Has/Will the Wii taken away too many of the casuals, so especially if another company or Sony itself comes out with a cheap Blu-Ray only player, that would be bought rather than the PS3?

Your thoughts?

 

 My thoughts are:

1- Blu-Ray is not as interesting as DVD was back in the day. The difference between VHS and DVD was huge, since DVD is so much more convenient than VHS. Blu-Ray appeals to a part of the technology-oriented crowd, but not so much to the rest of the population who don't even know what 720p is (even the ones who have HDTVs).

2- The PS3 won't forever be the cheapest Blu-Ray player, as you said.

 



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antfromtashkent on 29 February 2008

i dont think blu is enough, but i think its a hell of a start... the parents will get it for their kids....while also geting it for themselves for watching blu...



Slimebeast on 29 February 2008

The Blu-ray effect will be minimal.

* As NJ5 said, the difference between VHS and DVD was huge, while the difference between DVD and Blu-ray is not.

* Most people are content with the picture quality that DVD gives.

* Most people don't have 720p TV sets, and even less so 1080p TVs.

* Since 2001, the launch of PS2 and the breakthrough of DVD into homes, a lot of people have unfortunately learned habits of downloading movies down to their HDs through P2P-networks.



akuma587 on 29 February 2008

I think the quirky PSN titles and games like Little Big Planet will help. Most people I know who have played PS3 with me really had a lot of fun with the PSN titles, and many of them wouldn't call themselves gamers.



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ecurbj on 29 February 2008

It's to late in the generation for the casuals to jump aboard the PS3. The Wii has already and will be the casual/mainstream-picked console this generation.

The PS3 just and probably will pass the X360 sometime in the next couple of years. But saying the casuals are now buying PS3's, is not true.



Zero Hero on 29 February 2008

I thought the PS3 was dead. The PSP too. How can they sell if they are dead. I have and love my PS3, but the internet keeps saying it is dead. Ohhh... who to believe?!?!?!?



So what do you win if your prefered console sells more than another?