CES - PlayStation 3 comes up big for Blu-ray
- — 10 January, 2007 15:22
At the Blu-ray Disc event on Monday, the results of a Sony study as pertains to PlayStation 3 and Blu-ray Disc usage were revealed.
This, of course, has remained a question of much speculation since the release of the PS3 back in November: Will the gamers who flock to Playstation 3 for its games also look to use the console and its integrated Blu-ray Disc player to watch Blu-ray Disc movies?
According to a survey of more than 10,000 PS3 owners, 80 percent of the respondents planned to purchase Blu-ray Disc movies for use on the PlayStation 3. And over 75 percent planned to use Blu-ray Disc as a primary movie player.
By extrapolating from those numbers and Sony's assertion that it shipped 1 million PS3 consoles by the end of 2006, the BDA came up with some intriguing projections. If you follow those numbers through-80 percent of 1 million-it equals an installed base of 800,000 Blu-ray Disc players, just based on the PlayStation 3 alone.
With numbers like that, notes the Blu-ray Disc Association's Andy Parsons, "Blu-ray Disc represents the safe buy. It's not going to go away any time soon."
