will a $200 hddvd player hurt ps3?

If you could buy an hddvd player for 200.00 would you? and would this hurt the ps3

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In a year or two when BR players go down to the sub $400 range, the PS3 will lose its biggest selling point. I dont think Sony can drop the console price enough (if they ever do) to make the PS3 an attractive buy.  Also, the drive in the PS3 will be horribly outdated by then, when 3rd or 4th gen Blu Ray players are on the market.gromit007

In a year or two when BR players go down to the sub $400 range, the PS3 will lose its biggest selling point.gromit007

How would the PS3 lose its biggest selling point?

In a year or two the PS3's portfolio will have many compelling titles--blu-ray will just be an added benefit.

Look around these threads and you will see a number of PS3 owners exalting the power of the Blu Ray. At $600 the PS3 is cheaper than any BR player on the market, and that is one of the selling/bragging points for the PS3. Some (a lot?) people justified the purchase of the system because of the BR.

In years time or so the PS3 could very well be an expensive Blu Ray player that also plays games. Not really much value in that. As for people putting down the cash by then to play games, thats another story.

If you could buy an hddvd player for 200.00 would you? and would this hurt the ps3

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In years time or so the PS3 could very well be an expensive Blu Ray player that also plays games. Not really much value in that. As for people putting down the cash by then to play games, thats another story.gromit007

Correction: in a few years time or so the PS3 could very well be an expensive blu-ray player that also plays awesome games like MGS4, FFXIII, White Knight Story, Socom 4, God of War III,...shall I go on? 

Neither format is well, really. It depends on how you look at the numbers. BR outsells HDDVD in movies, but HDDVD players are outselling BR players. I wish i could find the link, but I saw that in the month of March, HDDVD players outsold BR players 4 to 1. If you check Amazon you will see three HDDVD players in the top 20 DVD players sold and only one BR player.

Regardless of anything i have just said, though, total sales of both formats in titles and hardware only make a small portion of the total sales in all of DVD. I hope neither catch on honestly. Two competing formats right now is a bad thing. We just now got to the point in the last 6 months where some studios no longer produce VHS. How long will it take for DVDs to be surpassed. It will take too long and I dont think neither of the HiDef formats have the legs to do it.

[QUOTE="gromit007"]In years time or so the PS3 could very well be an expensive Blu Ray player that also plays games. Not really much value in that. As for people putting down the cash by then to play games, thats another story.fuzzysquash

Correction: in a few years time or so the PS3 could very well be an expensive blu-ray player that also plays awesome games like MGS4, FFXIII, White Knight Story, Socom 4, God of War III,...shall I go on?

Yes, please go on. 

is anyone buying a ps3 just to play blu ray movies and not games? probably a fraction of a percent of sales. so no, its not going to hurt the ps3 at all.Kook18

Why do you think Bluray is selling more movies than HD-DVD? ;) 

[QUOTE="Kook18"]is anyone buying a ps3 just to play blu ray movies and not games? probably a fraction of a percent of sales. so no, its not going to hurt the ps3 at all.kryloc

Why do you think Bluray is selling more movies than HD-DVD? ;)

LOL this is going to blow Blu-ray out of the water. When Johnny Walmart goes to replace his DVD player and see's he can get a fancy new "HD-DVD" with that "crazy ole Matrix flick" blazing on an affordable LCD in super stunning visual quality all you will hear from elitist Blu-ray fanboys is "buhhh duhh Joe Sixpack has doomed us to duhh worser format just like in dee old betamax days" I for one will cheer because HD-DVD has produced quality discs from day one not rushed out junk like Blu-ray. THE LOOK AND SOUND OF PERFECT! Score one for the little guy!

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[QUOTE="Kook18"]is anyone buying a ps3 just to play blu ray movies and not games? probably a fraction of a percent of sales. so no, its not going to hurt the ps3 at all.Kook18

Why do you think Bluray is selling more movies than HD-DVD? ;)

ya think?  Though you might ask yourself, how well did UMDs do for the first few months of the PSP?  How well do they do now?  Is it possible that PS3 owners are only buying Bluray movies as a fad because a lack of good games?  

Food for thought. 

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[QUOTE="Kook18"]is anyone buying a ps3 just to play blu ray movies and not games? probably a fraction of a percent of sales. so no, its not going to hurt the ps3 at all.kryloc

Why do you think Bluray is selling more movies than HD-DVD? ;)

ya think? Though you might ask yourself, how well did UMDs do for the first few months of the PSP? How well do they do now? Is it possible that PS3 owners are only buying Bluray movies as a fad because a lack of good games?

Food for thought.

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[QUOTE="Kook18"]is anyone buying a ps3 just to play blu ray movies and not games? probably a fraction of a percent of sales. so no, its not going to hurt the ps3 at all.Kook18

Why do you think Bluray is selling more movies than HD-DVD? ;)

ya think? Though you might ask yourself, how well did UMDs do for the first few months of the PSP? How well do they do now? Is it possible that PS3 owners are only buying Bluray movies as a fad because a lack of good games?

Food for thought.

Was just messin at first, then you answered me all serious like.  Then I posed a fun little question for your mind training.(Brain Training has been trademarked)   

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[QUOTE="Kook18"]is anyone buying a ps3 just to play blu ray movies and not games? probably a fraction of a percent of sales. so no, its not going to hurt the ps3 at all.kryloc

Why do you think Bluray is selling more movies than HD-DVD? ;)

ya think? Though you might ask yourself, how well did UMDs do for the first few months of the PSP? How well do they do now? Is it possible that PS3 owners are only buying Bluray movies as a fad because a lack of good games?

Food for thought.

Was just messin at first, then you answered me all serious like. Then I posed a fun little question for your mind training.(Brain Training has been trademarked)

well let see. hd dvd is the first standalone to hit the 100k mark. but blu ray software is still out selling hd dvd. so i guess the answer would be nope. alfy13

[QUOTE="alfy13"]well let see. hd dvd is the first standalone to hit the 100k mark. but blu ray software is still out selling hd dvd. so i guess the answer would be nope. musicalmac

In a year or two when BR players go down to the sub $400 range, the PS3 will lose its biggest selling point. I dont think Sony can drop the console price enough (if they ever do) to make the PS3 an attractive buy. Also, the drive in the PS3 will be horribly outdated by then, when 3rd or 4th gen Blu Ray players are on the market.gromit007

hopefully the ps3 can drop its price with it...