'Blu-ray top reason for PS3 purchase: study'

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So after all it seems that the Blu-Ray capabilities of the PS3 are the main driving force behind its sales,not its exclusive games or "teh powah of teh cell". :P

Discuss.

I bought it for the games. Not sure about everyone else :P

1) This is rather old now.

2) It's not the "top reason," it's the most commonly cited top-five motive.

surely they didnt include me & my friends in their studies cause we all got our PS3's for gaming...I always find these articles stupid considering most of the time study is based on a couple of hundreds / thousands people, when currently there are 35 million PS3 owners..

1) This is rather old now.

2) It's not the "top reason," it's the most commonly cited top-five motive.

isn't it only a 3% difference for the people who buy it for movies and the people who buy it for games?

Not shocking. Main reason why it sold when launched. It was the cheapest bluray player.

Didn't sony advertise it as bluray player with small print reading "Also plays games"?

Practically the same percentage of people buy it for movies as the people who buy it for games. Clearly there's some overlap here.

Makes sense to me.GeneralShowzer

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Makes sense to me.surrealnumber5

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"][QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"]Makes sense to me.GeneralShowzer

"responses from 700 gamers aged between 7 and 54 who [do] not own a PS3"

Awesome study. And I use the term "study" loosely.

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So after all it seems that the Blu-Ray capabilities of the PS3 are the main driving force behind its sales,not its exclusive games or "teh powah of teh cell". :P

Discuss.

normal_gamer

In my own case is true; I bough my last PS3 game in November 2009 and still need to finish Uncharted 2, MGS 4 and Resistance 1.

If one is going to count 360/PC games as valid exclusives, can PS3 claim dibs on exclusive movies because the 360 can't play Blu-Rays? Oh snap!....-_-Jynxzor

Not shocking. Main reason why it sold when launched. It was the cheapest bluray player.

Didn't sony advertise it as bluray player with small print reading "Also plays games"?

Nohtnym

wouldn't be suprised if they did. the games sucked at launch

Imagine the damage if blu-ray lost the format wars...:o

Imagine the damage if blu-ray lost the format wars...:o

RavenLoud

It isn't my top reason since I've never brought a movie on Blu Ray, and this is a game console dammit...or is it?:o

and this is a game console dammit...or is it?:o

mitu123

No, in actuality...

it's teh supacomputa that cures cancar!!1 :P

I guess alot of you must have missed where PS3's software outsold XBOX 360's software for the 2009 fiscal year.

The PlayStation 3 enjoyed 115.6 million software sales in the Sony's 2009-fiscal year (runs from May 1st 2009 to April 30th 2010), up from 2008's 103.7 million units. Surprisingly, despite a lower hardware installed base, this performance was better than that of the Xbox 360, which achieved 103.1 million software sales.

i didnt buy the ps3 just for blu ray but it did make the purchase decision a lot easier. i looooove blu ray. planet earth is probably the most beautiful thing in existence. i just borrowed avatar from a friend, i though the movie was complete trash but the visuals are amazing

Sounds about right, so I'm not surprised that's the top reason but for me that's the top reason I enjoy and use my PS3.

It was one of the reasons i bought mine after allready having a 360.

I bought my PS3 for MGS4, and didn't care about Blu-ray at the time.

I was disappointed in MGS4, but now I have over 50 movies on Blu-ray.

main reason why i own mine

got it in 2008....so far i only own 2 games, stranglehold (has Hardboiled the movie on the disk) and Dark Sector (got it for $7, its fun for a little while)

surely they didnt include me & my friends in their studies cause we all got our PS3's for gaming...I always find these articles stupid considering most of the time study is based on a couple of hundreds / thousands people, when currently there are 35 million PS3 owners..

Malta_1980

Clearly, if maybe the 10 people you know don't fit in with the majority, then there is no way the study is correct. Do you understand how it works when there are 35 million other PS3 owners? The people frequenting this forum PROBABLY BOUGHT IT FOR THE GAMES. Are the people here every PS3 user? NO. So the fact that YOU are not the average does not mean the average is wrong. "They clearly didn't include me or my friends". Just THINK for a second on how a study works.

surely they didnt include me & my friends in their studies cause we all got our PS3's for gaming...I always find these articles stupid considering most of the time study is based on a couple of hundreds / thousands people, when currently there are 35 million PS3 owners..

Malta_1980

[QUOTE="shinrabanshou"]

1) This is rather old now.

2) It's not the "top reason," it's the most commonly cited top-five motive.

wooooode

i wonder if most people bought the PS2 back in its early days mainly because it was a cheap DVD palyer? I think so.

i wonder if most people bought the PS2 back in its early days mainly because it was a cheap DVD palyer? I think so.

XboximusPrime

main reason why i own mine

got it in 2008....so far i only own 2 games, stranglehold (has Hardboiled the movie on the disk) and Dark Sector (got it for $7, its fun for a little while)

ogvampire

Come on, get some games on that thing.

OT: It wasn't the main reason why I bought mine, but it was the main factor that justified it's price for me. (bought a 399$ non-BC fat)

I got it for the games, never even watched a blu ray on it.

This is news how.....

Anyways, this isn't that shocking. Like how most people only buy Wiis for the controller and some of the games. Or how most people bought a 360 only for the online play or PS2s for the DVD player. This really isn't that shocking.

Not really shocking at all especially when Sony did advertise it as a BR player. I think I remember seeing an ad that said, "it also plays games" and Sony did bundle it with a bunch of BR movies.