HappySqurriel on 07 August 2008
| slimeattack said: Where did you get the data that there weren't any blu-rays sold, because I just bought some. |
I think you missed his point ...
Suppose you have a format like DVD that sold 1 Billion discs in 2007, and a new format like Blu-Ray which sold 1 Million discs in 2007 ... If DVD sales increase by 5 Million units in 2008 that represents a 0.5% increase in DVD sales, and if Blu-Ray sees the same 5 Million unit increase in 2008 it will have a 500% increase in sales.
Large percentages of (relatively) small numbers are meaningless ... Most of 2007's Blu-Ray sales were amazingly low because there were few movies available and few people owned players to even buy these movies if they wanted them. With the library of Blu-Ray being much larger and there being far more PS3's owned by consumers a 300% increase is really not that large.
