Exactly, and lets also not forget that for many, their first Blu-ray player was a PS3. It's the sony way. I'm not sure we will need another major format any time soon but if another one comes out in 4-6 years, no doubt it will ne integral to the PS5, so you have enough capacity to play your native 8k games.
I imagine Sony used some top-shelf items for hte PS1 for a couple reasons. One, they wanted people to actually buy and use this item. Doubling this unit as a video game/CD player combo was a good strategy, especially if they could market that you could either get a $300 CD player of equal quality or just get a PS1 at [insert launch price here.] Sony also did this with Blu-Ray and the PS3, and I recall a lot of people were also quite happy to use their PS2s as DVD players.
As one of the best selling game systems of all time, it's hard to argue that the PS2 was not single handedly responsible for boosting DVD popularity to where it went. They were released in 1997, I got my first player "early" in late 1999 and was literally the only person I knew with a DVD player. But by 2000-2001 everyone had a PS2 and because of it a stack of DVDs. Netflix helped a ton as well.
As one of the largest music and movie property owners, it has always been Sony's goal to cross-promote their products to be features on their "game" systems, and they've been ultra successful with their systems making DVD and Blu-ray hits. Not so much with Super Audio CDs.
Yeah I often make this arguement when people debate why the PS2 beat the Dreamcast, it's like everyone has forgotten how important the letters D-V-D were to us back in the year 2000. NOBODY had a DVD player in the late 90s. You were very cutting edge if you did. The Playstation 2 single handedly brought DVD to the masses. I am certainly in the boat of people whose first CD player was a PS1 and first DVD player was a PS2.
My family got a brand new computer in late 1997 with a built in DVD player. I recall it being a big upgrade at the time and Face Off was the first movie we watched. IIRC Broken Arrow was another DVD we had early on. Within a year two of my friends also got computers with built in DVD players. I agree that PS2 increased DVD popularity though. It was the first system I bought on my own partially because it played DVDs. The games were pretty awesome too. The PS3 was my first Blu-ray player though.
That kind of reminds me that my first DVD player was also on my computer. It was the computer I bought for myself for my freshman year of college. This beast set me back $1,000. It only had 32 MB of RAM and a 40 GB hard drive, but it was impressive for it's time. The best part was that the DVD drive and CD burner were two separate drives. That was pretty cool having two separate disc drives at that time, (and still had 3.5" floppy as well). I still consider my PS2 to be my first true DVD player in that I never hooked up my computer to a proper TV. But luckily, when I got my first PS2, I already had a small collection of DVDs.
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I imagine Sony used some top-shelf items for hte PS1 for a couple reasons. One, they wanted people to actually buy and use this item. Doubling this unit as a video game/CD player combo was a good strategy, especially if they could market that you could either get a $300 CD player of equal quality or just get a PS1 at [insert launch price here.] Sony also did this with Blu-Ray and the PS3, and I recall a lot of people were also quite happy to use their PS2s as DVD players.
As one of the best selling game systems of all time, it's hard to argue that the PS2 was not single handedly responsible for boosting DVD popularity to where it went. They were released in 1997, I got my first player "early" in late 1999 and was literally the only person I knew with a DVD player. But by 2000-2001 everyone had a PS2 and because of it a stack of DVDs. Netflix helped a ton as well.
As one of the largest music and movie property owners, it has always been Sony's goal to cross-promote their products to be features on their "game" systems, and they've been ultra successful with their systems making DVD and Blu-ray hits. Not so much with Super Audio CDs.
Yeah I often make this arguement when people debate why the PS2 beat the Dreamcast, it's like everyone has forgotten how important the letters D-V-D were to us back in the year 2000. NOBODY had a DVD player in the late 90s. You were very cutting edge if you did. The Playstation 2 single handedly brought DVD to the masses. I am certainly in the boat of people whose first CD player was a PS1 and first DVD player was a PS2.
My family got a brand new computer in late 1997 with a built in DVD player. I recall it being a big upgrade at the time and Face Off was the first movie we watched. IIRC Broken Arrow was another DVD we had early on. Within a year two of my friends also got computers with built in DVD players. I agree that PS2 increased DVD popularity though. It was the first system I bought on my own partially because it played DVDs. The games were pretty awesome too. The PS3 was my first Blu-ray player though.