Anywho, here's the highlights, brought to you by Sony and Next-Gen:
Cumulative Blu-ray movie sales to date number over 439,000 while HD-DVD numbers a little under 438,000. It doesn't sound like much, but since Sony is reporting this you have to respect that they aren't exaggerating the numbers. They expect the gap to widen in the coming months.The top two Blu-ray titles as of right now are Crank and Gridiron Gang.Thanks to the PS3, a Blu-ray movie buying frenzy began in January -- BD titles outsold HD-DVD titles in a 3:1 ratio the first few weeks of January.Sony claims 40% market share in the Blu-ray world, thanks mostly to the PS3. Overall, nothing really new, but affirmation that Blu-ray is beginning to pick up steam. With the European launch so very, very close, not only will that bolster sales, but... come on, the Blu-ray of Casino Royale is coming out around the same time. That's a huge movie, hopefully in Europe as much as it was in the US of A. We still think that would have been a swell bundle package, but whatever.
That's not much, especially if the PS3 is helping. I'd like to see standalone player sales. Something tells me HDDVD will be higher.fatzombiepigeon
Its not the sales of the hardware that determines the winner but the sales of the software. Right now for stand alone players the only company that is dumping money in HD DVD players is Toshiba while Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung, Sony and others have made blu ray players. People assumed that systems wouldnt affect movie sales but people didnt realize that gamers and movie buffs tend to share the same hobbies. Thats why EB games buys and sells used DVDs. I remember reading tons of threads saying "....video game consoles have nothing to do with the format war." Some people here just arent buisness savy.
Anywho, here's the highlights, brought to you by Sony and Next-Gen:
Cumulative Blu-ray movie sales to date number over 439,000 while HD-DVD numbers a little under 438,000. It doesn't sound like much, but since Sony is reporting this you have to respect that they aren't exaggerating the numbers. They expect the gap to widen in the coming months.The top two Blu-ray titles as of right now are Crank and Gridiron Gang.Thanks to the PS3, a Blu-ray movie buying frenzy began in January -- BD titles outsold HD-DVD titles in a 3:1 ratio the first few weeks of January.Sony claims 40% market share in the Blu-ray world, thanks mostly to the PS3. Overall, nothing really new, but affirmation that Blu-ray is beginning to pick up steam. With the European launch so very, very close, not only will that bolster sales, but... come on, the Blu-ray of Casino Royale is coming out around the same time. That's a huge movie, hopefully in Europe as much as it was in the US of A. We still think that would have been a swell bundle package, but whatever.
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Link? Last I saw BR only outsold HD-DVD 2:1 in the first 2 weeks of January and HD-DVD outsold BR by %19 in the 3rd week.
Doesn't matter anyway, this thread is going to be locked.
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