Playstations and Blu-Ray players

[andrewducker]

Let's assume that the PS3 will launch for about the same price as the XBox 360 (and anything else would be suicide) at around $450.

And let's also assume that the prices floating around for Blu-Ray players is reasonable accurate and that they'll be starting at $600.

Now, as the PS3 will have a Blu-Ray player built in, who the hell is going to go into competition with Sony by releasing their own player, when they will be beaten so badly on price?

Comments

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely. I think the push to HD will come from Sky/Telewest initially, and while they're both slowly getting there (Telwest are trialling HD and it's rolling out properly over the next month or two) it'll be a while before it goes at all mainstream.

Not to mention the lack of HD TVs that are any good, at a decent price.