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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
And the price at launch in comparison to the price of the Xbox 360... That was a pretty big turn-off, too.
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Good point. The PS3 was monstrously expensive (I think it was $650?) at launch. What was worse - Sony were apparently still losing money even at that price.
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Originally Posted by Serpentine
And then you work out just how many of those ps3's are used exclusively as BD players  |
While there are undoubtedly some for who that is true, they are surely in the minority. When the PS3 launched, it was the cheapest good Blu-ray player on the market, but prices for Blu-ray players dropped not too long after. I doubt many of the sales of the console after, say, the first year can be attributed to people who just wanted a movie player.