Blu-ray Disc Exceeds Expectations

[dbot]

johnsobas said:

starcraft said:

MikeB said:

johnsobas said:

dbot said:
@johnsobas - please provide a link for that claim. Sony would be insane to believe they will have 50% market share this year.

I know it sounds stupid and like something a fanboy would make up, but Sony actually said that.

(US press reliability and accuracy is often very bad)

Mike cleared this one up for us folks.

It's not good Blu-Ray news, it's just Dvdfile.com displaying more crappy US reporting.

Nothing to see here people.

 

no he didn't. He posted some links about unrelated things trying to show how the US press has lied in the past, nothing groundbreaking. This story is all over the net, and yea it's from the same source but this story has been out for a long time and I see no reason to believe it is false. If a story like this was all over the internet and the president of sony didn't say it, there would be a denial. Since when do all vgchartz articles have to include the original quotes in Japanese to be considered valid?

 

"Videogames still count as blu ray sales along with movies, so of course there would be a huge boost."

so blu-ray video games would count but not DVD video games? That doesn't make sense.

 

 

I appreciate the folks who took the opportunity to knock the US Press, but the original source media is owned and operated in Taiwan not the US.  Also, I didn't mean to derail the thread by asking for a source to the original claim.  Obviously something has been lost in translation because nobody is holding Blu-ray to a 50% market share metric for 2008.  Blu-ray has had a very good 2008 and I look forward to the continued success in 2009.