From: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10145&Itemid=2 

Just as some game makers might worry that people are buying PS3s just for Blu-ray movies, movie studios may need to worry that that people are buying the consoles just for games, according to one analyst.
Image“The studios better hope that people are playing movies on their PlayStations," said ABI Research analyst Steve Wilson. "Otherwise there’s very little installed base."

The comments come from an abstract of ABI Research's new study, “Consumer Video Technologies Forecasts," which found that "the state of the Blu-ray player market is not all that encouraging," because of the market's reliance on the Blu-ray-enabled PS3.

"In 2008 about 85 percent of the Blu-ray players in the market will be found in PS3s; the dedicated consumer electronics and PC-based types of Blu-ray players won’t catch up in terms of market share until about 2013," Wilson added.

He also said that about 35 percent of DVD players sold today include upconversion capabilities, which improve the look of standard DVD videos. ABI expects that figure to reach about 60 percent by 2013.

With people already having large libraries of DVDs, and with DVD player technology improving, consumers have less of a reason to upgrade to high-definition video, even if Blu-ray won the war against HD-DVD.

“The studios had hoped to have settled the war,” Wilson added. "But I think they’re going to be disappointed when they don’t see the volumes of players going up they way they would have liked.”

>>>Interesting. It sounds reasonable that most people buy a PS3 as a gaming machine. 

Ok....but this "crutch" helped it beat out HD DVD

Yeah, that's true. Still... we'll see when standalones are signficantly cheaper then PS3s. Are the standalones even cheaper yet?

BengaBenga,you live in Europe,right?...when are you getting SSBB?...when you do,I´d like to add you,I´ll leave my Brawl FC in my sig for a long time.

I still think BR players will take over simply because they will be able to play BR and DVD (and upscale too) and so long as the price comes down you simply get more choice.

Plus all the studios have to do is make the DVD versions 'skinny' and shove best extras on BR versions to encourage the film fans to go BR with new purchases while keeping existing DVDs.

PS3 is the only Blu-ray player, and that is even in the eyes of the hardcore A/V crowd. Now that you DTS-HD audio on it all of the A/V sites have begun praising it. Not to metion it is the only player that is 2.0 as of right now, and it comes at a price much cheaper than many of the 1.1 players available. Once Sony has their Video download service up and running the PS3 will be undisputedly the best player on the market. Were else are people going to get Blu-ray movies and the option of downloading? I can only think of the PC, and the liklyhood of people making a pc for movie on their TV is very slim. PS3 is going to sell both games and movies just as the PS2 did and that is fact.

Lol

This is the part where we're all supposed to go, "Uh oh!"

Fortunately, you can slant an article in any direction you want. Not even worth reading in my opinion.

The MSRPs never changed.  It's just that the sales, etc. started ending.  And if you look at that chart, prices were fluctuating all over the place.  The cheapeast prices were generally within the first two weeks after Christmas, when stores usually drop prices to try and sell off excess stock.