Thanks To PS3: Blu-ray Player Sales Well Over 10 Million

Boston (dbTechno) - The installed user base of the high-def Blu-ray format is well over 10 million players in the homes of consumers thanks to the popularity of the Sony PS3. The PS3 was a huge factor in the format war as it has a built-in Blu-ray player, compared to the Xbox 360 which required you to purchase the HD DVD player add-on drive.

[Anything but Cute]

I mean will PS3 stay the best selling Blu ray player? When will people start picking up more standalone players.

[resistance100]

i suspect they will stay buying Ps3's until really affordable standalone players with 2.0 standard are introduced.

however with the format war one, Ps3's value against 360 have rose massively and could also play a big part in the console war aswell

[sonarus]

PS3 40Gb is still rumored to drop another 100 dollars and i suspect stand alone devices will drop another 100 as well. PS3 will prob cruise at this price point for a while. While competition from other blu ray manufacturers should start to drive the prices down

[paracardium]

I still have more games then Bluray movies but now maybe the movies will drop in price abit.. alot of good flicks coming our way!

[sonarus]

agreed. blu ray movies are a bit expensive i believe they should start retailing for 19.99 on amazon its usually about 22

[fartanspartan]

the format war isn't "one" its "won".

[ChrisGTR1]

wait... so does this mean people that bought a stand alone blueray player is under a million? cause theres 10 mil ps3s sold..

[undacovabrothe]

there are about 12mil blue ray players our there. 10.5 ps3 and like 1.5-2mil stand alone.

[fenderputty]

the war is actually now offically over. Transofrmers and LoTR are coming to BD. There is one format. We know why it won and we know all the responses from all involved parties. I was starting to look forward to the end of the war simply because I was growing tired of hearing about it. Can we at least slow down on the BD articles?

[Relcom]

WELL SAID.

[FungLip]

Who wouldn't buy a PS3 for a blu-ray player? It's cheap and could update itself. Sony still need to do a better job at letting ppl know PS3 could play blu-ray.

[The Warmonger]

A comment from Gabe Newell...

[Bleyd]

That's right! I totally forgot about how he trashed the PS3. I can't remember exactly what he said. Do you have a quote about anything he said about the Blu-Ray drive?

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

I'm waiting on FF7 advent children and Dot hack G.U. Movie atm, can't wait.

[TwissT]

I totally forgot Advent Children will be on blu-ray!!! But I already bought the dvd even before blu-ray came out so... should I get it?

[Gina-get-u]

One unfavorable side-effect of the blu-ray victory (for me) is that it will delay any PS3 price-cut for a good while. Not only will demand for PS3s hold steady or increase, but Sony will want to keep the PS3's price a little high for a while to avoid competing directly with stand-alone players that offer much less. Sony will want to encourage other manufacturers to enter the blu-ray market. That won't happen if nobody will buy a stand-alone player who can buy a PS3 for either the same price or just a little more. Bottom line for me is, I may have to wait a while longer to buy a PS3. The price-cut will come, but not as soon as I had hoped. Let's see how Sony will react to a 360 price-cut.

[OC Shock Value]

At first i was 100% convinced that Nintendos Wii would win the console war.. But NOW bluray will play a MAJOR hand in this war.. I expect extremely heavy battles between the PS3 and Wii for the rest of this gen.. This will be Nintendo and Sonys closest and craziest fight yet..

I know that Sony "won" saleswize in the PS1 N64 era.. But i call it a DRAW when it comes to software quality.. As of this verry day i think the Wii is beating out the PS3 in the Legendary 9/10 games department (minus shuvelware) But sony has a chance to change that around later this year.. As long as some of these games put up some award winning(Nintendo Franchise Game) type scores and reviews..

[TwissT]

Like I have been saying before... Transformers on blu-ray! Seriously the format war is over so we should cool it on the format war articles.

[unjust]

Who needs HD DVD or Blu-ray when full high-definition movie collections can be downloaded and enjoyed without having consumers invest in players, recorders, and (yet another) host of movie discs? Microsoft360 and Netflix partnership what! AppleTv coming I see doom in the near future. Its funny how you all complained about PS3 cost when it came out yet you'll spend 40 bucks for one of those Blu-Ray movies.