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Forums - General Discussion - Will Xbox One accelerate blu-ray adoption?

Kasz216 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Blu Ray on Nintendo and Microsoft following Sony will expand Blu Ray adoption, but yes Sony has already done most of the work that needed to be done the same way they did with DVD's during the PS2 era. Blu Ray has been big a relatively short amount of time. It wasnt until like half way through the PS3 era that it started to pick up speed on stand-alone players. DVD's first came out in 1995 and no one could afford it until the Playstation 2 in 2001, so the Blu Ray market will slowly eat away at the DVD market.


DVD's first came out in 1996.  In Japan only, USA in december 97, Europe 98 and didn't go fully world wide until 1999.

The DVD standard was finalized in 1995 if that's what you mean.  It wasn't actually released then though.

 

Blu-ray has lagged behind DVD in pretty much every sales indicator except for player sales... only because of the PS3.

Not just in marketshare numbers but in just pure physical numbers.  Which is fascinating considering the increase in the market.

 

By 2003 DVD was considered to have a majority of marketshare by pretty much everybody.

By Blu-rays timeline that would be 2012.  We're sitting at 2013 and it's still only sitting at around 40% total sales on a statistic that only counts the top 50 movies.   Which is a measure that's slanted towards new media... and despite the fact that the PS3 came out before the PS1 respectivly lifetime..


I think the attach rate being smaller via physical copies is because the advent of digital streaming, which has probably affected the sales of physical box sets of shows all around. Netflix, Hulu and everyone else aren't helping that cause. Blu Ray has made its mark though greatly in the market. Physical media is dying down slolwy but luckily new media is making it ok to continue to participate in collecting. I am sure digital games being purchased are slowly starting to eat away at physical sales now. Times are changing, but it doesn't mean Blu Ray isn't making an impact. CD sales aren't what they used to because of digital media and pirating. You can easily find whatever song you want and make a playlist on Youtube. The less physical a copy of a product is the more there free reign comes in on society to be picked up in almost any manner whether money is spent or not. This is why some Xbox fans cannot were thrilled about the DRM and hoped for a digital only Xbox (Yes, I've spoke to people who have this belief).