Why is a ps3 less expensive than a blu-ray dvd player?

im just asking cuz its seems kind of stupid of sony on their part

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The PS3 cant exactly play Blu-Ray disks without a special part, so in the end the new part cost more. Well, it%26#39;s mainly 2 reasons. The first is that Sony is willing to absorb the loss in order to get the Blu-ray into homes via the PS3. Sony can recuperate its losses by selling games, while Samsung has to sell it at around 800 to 1000 bucks because it has to make a profit. It can%26#39;t depend on other things to make up for the loss. And the second reason is that it%26#39;s an inferior quality Blu-ray player than the one you get from Samsung or Sony. In order to move units, it’s not uncommon for video game manufacturers to initially push consoles at a loss. The PS3, while priced at Neo Geo-level prices, is still, by all available indications, costing Sony a loss of a few Benjamins per unit. Still, the PS3 plays Blu-ray movies, and at five or six hundred dollars a pop, is far cheaper than any other Blu-ray player currently on the market. Obviously, as has been widely reported, this means that it really makes no sense to shell out a thousand bucks for a player when you can just buy a PS3 (assuming you can find one in stock), and simply ignore the fact that it plays games if you are so inclined.

Sony’s strategy is obviously to get movie fans into the video game aisle, assuming that, if they already have the game machine, they’ll surely buy some games (the true money generator for video game companies.) Meanwhile, they are surely hoping that PS3 fans, already possessing the movie player, will shell out cash for some fine Blu-ray titles — hopefully giving Blu-ray a crossover appeal that will allow it to eradicate HD-DVD. As an aside, I remember that a number of my friends bought a PS2 solely to play DVDs back in the dark ages of video, replacing aged and breaking VHS players with crisp and clear 480p resolution.

Sounds great: PS3 fanboys will push Blu-ray into the black, and high-def movie buffs will give the PS3 the market share it needs. If Sony is right, they’ve got themselves a little circle of success here.

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