I am so sick of the word 'FUD'. It's like the geek's version of the Paris Hilton

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Originally Posted by jayselle

I still contend that the percentage of people buying the add-on will be around the same number of people buying the PS3 for BD.

What? This is total nonsense! You're now claiming that the number of 360 add-on buyers will be the same as those that buy a PS3 purely as a blu-ray player?

But EVERYONE with a PS3 is a potential blu-ray movie consumer. You can't just slice up PS3 buyers into neat groups that make the 360 add-on sales look good!

Face facts mate, every single PlayStation3 sold is a blu-ray player installed. If, as I expect, the vast majority of these PS3's are hooked up to HDtv's (as 360's were when they went on sale) then I fully expect over 90% to pick up at least one blu-ray movie, in fact given the price of BD movies, I'd be surprised if every owner didn't pick one up.

You cannot seriously argue that over 90% of 360 owners will be buying this add on? And as MS are now offering HD movie rentals by download to your 360, why bother with it at all? By the end of the month you will be able to rent HD movies and buy tv programmes!! All you need is the harddrive.

Lol. It was MS who berated Sony for making the PS3 a movie player, claiming that gamers only want a game console... What happened to that line of thought MS? They are suddenly trying to make the 360 all things to all men, which is a huge turn around from where they stood at launch. It reeks of a company desperately trying to find novel ways to keep their console in the public eye. Well the public eye is about to head toward Sony and Nintendo.

You've had your one year head start MS, and you blew it.