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Gamers Don't Know Their Own Consoles
deadmantyping writes "Ars Technica reports on a survey of 6,260 responses which indicates that only 40 percent of PS3 owners knew that their console included Bluray. Apparently a large portion of gamers aren't aware of the non-gaming capabilities of their systems. Ars speculates that this might help explain Nintendo's apparent dominance in the console market since their introduction of the Wii."
OK. So I wasted 10 minutes of my life googling for ancient fucking news stories.
By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) - With dazzling, near-film-quality graphics, Sony's new video-game machine PlayStation2 is having a huge impact in a related industry: Japan's fledgling DVD market. Since March, more than 3 million PlayStation2's have been sold in Japan. In the first eight months of this year, DVD sales nearly quadrupled to 16 million, compared to the same period the previous year, according to the Japan Video Software Association, an industry group. "We anticipated this giant boost from PlayStation2 and began expanding our DVD section ahead of time,'' Ayako Kobori, spokeswoman for Culture Convenience Club Co, said Tuesday. ``Some people are using PlayStation2 more to play DVDs than to play games."...
from www.dvdmon.com archives, which references a yahoo news page which sadly is not archived (6 years later).
It's also common fucking sense.
I know more than you drink.
Correction: people buy the Wii because it's trendy.