Sony Pushes Back Release For Blu-Ray Players

Sony has announced that their first model of Blu-Ray player will release in August, not later this month as originally announced. The BDP-SP1, retailing for $1000, will now ship on or about August 15th. Bad news for fans of the new format, and even worse news for the PS3. Since Sony's lackluster E3 showing, a string of bad news has seemed to conspire against the company's next-gen console. From the Gamers with Jobs article: "With the PS3's high-end model coming it at a whopping $400.00 less than a stand-alone Blu-Ray player, Sony needs to release these players as soon as possible. If they wait too long, the PS3 will begin looming on the horizon, causing even devout early adopters to question the intelligence of buying a stand-alone Blu-Ray unit. Sony also needs the largest possible installed base, come launch-time for the PS3. For the Blu-Ray player to be the PS3's version of the PS2's DVD player, casual technophiles need to be able to see the virtues of the Blu-Ray format. If there are few players, and few titles, this might not happen."

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Re:Can Sony survive this easily?

[ericspinder]

Nintendo has long been 3rd in the console rankings, and that probably won't change here.

Why, because SONY pays you to say so?

Your only argument is that people associate PlayStation with gaming console, and while that is true, it should be noted that not all that long ago, Nintendo had that distinction. When SONY put out a better product for just about the same price, Nintendo started to lose.

reputation alone should be able to get it through these rough patches.

Yea and the producers of "Happy Days" thought that anytime Fonzie jumped something ratings when up. Personally, I see some very, very costly price competition of the horizon, which PS3 won't likely survive.