Yeah but the PS3 focused so hard on their Blu-Ray and matching M$ online, they forgot to make good games.
I'm wondering, though, how can the PS3 have a Blu-Ray player, and standalone players cost more? It really makes no logical sense.

Actually, apparently Sony stated that they are finally starting to make money with PS3. If I remember correctly, it costs them about $400 to make a new 40GB model. I'm not sure if they are already making profit with each console or if they will start making profit once the production values will drop even more though. Still, Sony has lost over 2 billion dollars because of PS3 so it needs to sell really well if Sony wants to actually make profit in the end. I think it's going to start selling a lot more sooner or later though, the price has gone down and probably will go down more, blu-ray won against hd-dvd plus it will finally start to get really good games this year, MGS4, LittleBigPlanet and GTA4 for example, possibly FF13 in Japan. I got my PS3 today and while it doesn't have a single really fantastic game so far, it got enough good games so that I finally wanted to buy one, especially with MGS4 coming out soon. And the new 40GB version was cheaper (still expensive though) so that helped.

Also, about what bazookatooth said, I might be wrong but didn't blu-ray finally win because Warner decided to go with it? I mean, the whole race was pretty much decided on who the movie companies will support, wasn't it? I'm sure there was more to the whole thing but I doubt Japanese market had that much of an impact to the final result. I might be completely wrong here since I'm not really that well informed about the whole format wars thing. I don't really care.

i always figured blu-ray would win. its a superior format and had sony's backing from the beginning and later on warner brothers backed it too.  im glad it "won" even though it seemed to me there was no real contest.  im tired of acronyms everywhere and only making dvd as a longer acronym is absolutely stupid. hd-dvd. come on.  sony already had a backwards compatable ps3, so im sure "they" will make a backwards compatable blu-ray player that plays dvd's as well.

also, i dont play video games anymore... but am i just stupid or something or does sony really make games for the ps3? i dont think they are to blame. not to mention, there are good games coming out for the ps3 - metal gear solid 4 ALONE is a reason to buy. not to mention, its been out for a year... how long did it take xbox 360 to make GOOD games? halo 3 bombed out - no one i know even plays it anymore. it might have sold like hot cakes but everyone is tired of it. halo 3 also took a year after xbox 360's release. oh and gta4 is coming out soon too. it takes awhile for games to come out.

but what the fuck do i know.