More people in US with a HD DVD player than Blu-ray

[theRepublic]

blizzid said:

JEDE3 said:

blizzid said:

I agree that the results are skewed, but I think everyone doing math using "300+ million Americans" is doing it wrong. These kinds of figures wouldn't count individuals; they'd count households. (If a man buys a Blu-ray player for his home, his wife is considered a Blu-ray owner as well.) The number of households in the US was around 111 million is 2007. If you do the math again using 111 million instead of 300+ million, the numbers don't look so bad. Still off, but not by orders of magnitude.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

Though you might be correct about households it looks like 128 million in '07. 128 * .09 = 11.5 million in US. 11.5 * 1.1 = 12.76million Ps3's in NA then right?

Exactlly. Assuming VGChartz is correct and there are actually 8.73 million PS3s in North America, that would mean they are off by 45%. The math done using 306 million would be 306m * 0.09 * 1.1 = 30.294 million PS3s in North Amerca. That's off by 247%.

Considering this, I wouldn't be surprised if they were too high on all of their numbers.