[TheGame]

Ps2 would have costed Sony around $30-50 less (each) to make if it didn't have DVD playback.... there is a licencing fee which is much more friendly now then it ever was then. The licence was high enough to pursuade MS to make there gamers pay the extra fee themselves to watch DVDs on Xbox... good ol $30 remote.

But when you take into account the huge amounts of money Sony and Microsoft lost with the launch of the systems... adding DVD playback wasn't all that bad when compared to the expense of the rest of the hardware. When Sony first released Ps2 in Japan, DVD playback pretty much killed Sony's income because at the time it was the cheapest DVD player Japanese people could buy.

What's the point of my post? I dunno... Sony owned ass this generation with the new feature, and Nintendo continues their slide down hill without Online play and and extra features. How big of a factor was it? Who knows... What's the point of my post? That's for you to know and for me to find out.