87% of owners watch Blu-rays on PS3

[Nousemercenary]

The Sony Corporation has announced this week that 87% of PlayStation 3 owners utilize their console to view Blu-ray movies.

Link: http://www.psu.com/87--of-owners-wat...0002355-p0.php


Too bad for HD-DVD MS didn't have a built in player...lol

[Living Near Shamu]

Troll?

[ground chuck]

what there's a blu-ray player in my ps3....no way

[Nousemercenary]

Yeah, I own 34 movies on Blu-ray, watch them all on my PS3.

[venusiansky]

How does Sony know that I am watching blu-ray movies on my PS3?

[PLASMA-1080P-FULLHD]

I watch and rent it all the time. Been doing that since the launch

[Dynamo of Eternia]

Originally Posted by Living Near Shamu

Troll?

He just posted something that is Blu-Ray postitive... how does that make him a troll?

I swear, people around here are just so trigger happy with that word that now they are accusing their own kind of being trolls. Get a grip.



That is good news for the format, but I wonder how accurate that number truely is. I mean, amongst all PS3 owners, I would think those who are Blu-Ray enthusiasts would be more apt to participate in such a poll. Most of those who don't care about Blu-Ray would likely just pass it by, hence these results.

I don't deny that a lot of people are using their PS3 for Blu-Ray, and that it is the primary reason that Blu-Ray has pretty much won the format war. However, that percentage doesn't seem very accurate. When you consider how many PS3's are out there, if 87% of people were that into the Blu-Ray format, then the disc sales would be even higher and would have been dwarfing HD-DVD by a much larger margin than they already have been.

Heck, I wonder if 87% of PS3 owners even have an HDTV. I'm sure many people are buying it just to have a next gen system since support for the PS2 is winding down, and not all of them have an HDTV, so upgrading their movie format without such a TV wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.

[Dalese]

Originally Posted by venusiansky

How does Sony know that I am watching blu-ray movies on my PS3?

From the article linked..

These figures were drawn from an internet-based survey conducted by Sony.

[coralfangs]

I'm not surprised
for me, I wasn't into HD movies but since I paid for the ps3 and it does play blu-ray, so why not

[RC-Bruin]

Originally Posted by venusiansky

How does Sony know that I am watching blu-ray movies on my PS3?

I bought Heavenly Sword recently and there was a survey card in there regarding Blu-Ray. My guess would be that's how they're doing the research.

[Joe Cain]

Dunno why the OP is a troll.

Anyone who thinks the PS3 is anything BUT the single most significant piece of hardware in the format war, on the other hand, has most likely been living under a bridge.

[hoser]

Originally Posted by Joe Cain

Anyone who thinks the PS3 is anything BUT the single most significant piece of hardware in the format war, on the other hand, has most likely been living under a bridge.

Truth...the PS3 is THE reason why Blu-ray movies have been out-selling HD-DUD for so long.
IMO, it is the primary reason why BD has won.

[Got2LoveGadgets]

I brought a PS3 for games as since the age of the spectrum I have been a big games fan. I wasn't planning on joining the format war last year plus consoles have only ever been good at one thing in the past an that's games. My PS3 came with Spiderman 3 which I chucked on not expecting much but the picture blew me away Hence I now have a new amp over 30 Blu Rays! The PS3 is a fantastic piece of kit and for the price it just cant be beaten

[RC-Bruin]

Watch Blu-Rays all the time on my PS3. One of the reasons I bought it in the first place.

[cpgator]

While I believe the number is higher than the HD-DVD side has claimed, does anyone really believe it is 87%? This would mean there are well over 3 million blu ray consumers - if that was true, wouldn't there be more BD movies selling? I would even be extremely suprised if 87% of PS3 owners had a HDTV.

And yes, I own a PS3, and yes I use it mostly for movies.

[Kendall]

Originally Posted by cpgator

While I believe the number is higher than the HD-DVD side has claimed, does anyone really believe it is 87%? This would mean there are well over 3 million blu ray consumers - if that was true, wouldn't there be more BD movies selling? I would even be extremely suprised if 87% of PS3 owners had a HDTV.

And yes, I own a PS3, and yes I use it mostly for movies.

Many of them could just use it for renting at the moment which is why it might not have affected sales more (but with many millions of discs sold now, I'm not sure that's the case).

I don't think it's too farfetched, given that the current cheaper model ships with a Blu-Ray disc, and every PS3 owner I know (several) uses it as a Blu-Ray player.

[jurassic_pork]

Originally Posted by Kendall

Many of them could just use it for renting at the moment which is why it might not have affected sales more (but with many millions of discs sold now, I'm not sure that's the case).

I don't think it's too farfetched, given that the current cheaper model ships with a Blu-Ray disc, and every PS3 owner I know (several) uses it as a Blu-Ray player.

Keep in mind that many of the same PS3's were packaged with Blu-ray movies so people might not be buying tons of movies but still watching their freebies on their PS3.

[cpgator]

Originally Posted by Kendall

Many of them could just use it for renting at the moment which is why it might not have affected sales more (but with many millions of discs sold now, I'm not sure that's the case).

I don't think it's too farfetched, given that the current cheaper model ships with a Blu-Ray disc, and every PS3 owner I know (several) uses it as a Blu-Ray player.

I supposed I just wish the survey was a bit more detailed. I would guess a lot of those surveyed that replied 'yes' probably on did so because they played the spiderman disc on their non-HDTV that was included with their PS3. The survey would be much more informative if they asked some follow up questions like how many times a month do they watch blu rays, or how many BDs do the rent or purchase a month. And for those who replied that they don't use it for BDs, follow up with why not.

[webmaster@michaelbay]

Originally Posted by Nousemercenary

The Sony Corporation has announced this week that 87% of PlayStation 3 owners utilize their console to view Blu-ray movies.

Link: http://www.psu.com/87--of-owners-wat...0002355-p0.php


Too bad for HD-DVD MS didn't have a built in player...lol

Weird....

Many Xbox 360, PS3 owners unaware of HD abilities

[blu-backer]

Originally Posted by webmaster@michaelbay

Weird....

Many Xbox 360, PS3 owners unaware of HD abilities

I'm guessing that since August 2007 a lot has changed and this may not be as big an issue as it was back then. IMHO, it would be hard to find a PS3 owner who bought it only for the games and did not know that it could play BD. I say this mainly because there weren't that many games out at launch and even today, there are fewer games for it than XBox.

So, I would think that the average PS3 owner most likely had BD playback as one of his/her reasons to buy one, whereas the average XBox owner was probably more concerned about playing Halo 3.

Just my $0.02.