S.T.A.G.E. said:
MontanaHatchet said:
starcraft said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Perhaps, except HD movie sales were and still are far too low to convert studios to the cause. The majority of the movie studios supported Blu-ray during the format war, so the PS3 would have still had the advantage of having the format destined to win. If the 360 had an HD-DVD player, it could have been a disadvantage.
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But Blu-Ray only became relevant after the PS3's launch. If there were already 3 or 4 million HD DVD players out there for a year or so, on top of MS and Toshiba forking out millions for exclusivity, do you really believe studios would have stuck with Blu-Ray?
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Why wouldn't they have? If the PS3 came out and started selling millions, which it did, than Blu-ray would start to grow as well. Studios stuck with the format because they wanted the format war to cease as quickly as possible. And the 360 would have cost more and probably have been delayed for a couple months at least to work the HD-DVD drive into the console. Microsoft would have lost millions more than they did, and the userbase would have been smaller.
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It wasnt just the studios, they also got Blockbuster into the little joyride forcing exclusivity in the store so the people who made rentals couldnt have choice. What they did was force the product on the people. Hollywood Video tried to save HD-DVD but they couldnt, because they were having problems themselves. Both Blu Ray and HD-DVD was supposed to die, but because of the PS3 it lived.
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Blockbuster had 2,500 stores with both HD formats in their stores as trials. Blu-ray was the clear choice for the consumer. Blockbuster then made those 2,500 stores all Blu-ray and then slowly made each store carry them. They werent forced.
EDIT: Sorry it was 250 stores. I added an extra 0.
"Blockbuster has been renting both Blu-ray and HD DVD titles in 250 stores since late last year and found that consumers were choosing Blu-ray titles more than 70 percent of the time."
