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makingmusic476 on 11 November 2008
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NJ5 said:
makingmusic476 said:
NJ5 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Nice blu-ray's market share keeps going up and up with more and more releases. And these big releases are helping out a bunch. I hope Blu-ray can make it to 12% this holiday.

And I'll leave the naysayers to someone else.

Blu-Ray doesn't have 12% market share. Are you instead referring to those rosy "market share among top Blu-Ray movies" figures?

 

 

The majority of sales come from those "top movies", so what's your point?

A movie like Transformers can sell 8.3 million the first week, and all those movies in the $5 bin hardly compare.

I'm not very informed about the DVD vs Blu-Ray battle, but I don't think those figures are from "top movies", if I remember correctly they're actually from "top Blu-Ray movies".

It's like someone taking the best-selling multiplat PS3 titles and calculating PS3's market share vs the 360 from there.

 

From what I understand it's using new releases that appear on both formats.

The main argument I've seen used against the figure is that it doesn't include the thousands of movies already released on DVD that aren't also on Blu-Ray, thus making DVD's current sales seem smaller than they really are.

It would be like comparing multiplat titles and ignoring the exclusives when arguing total software sales.