makingmusic476 on 09 November 2007
| shams said: No real surprise, Spiderman was always going to tilt things back towards BluRay. But unless we are genuinely interested in tracking charts (BluRay titles vrs HD-DVD) - which I doubt we are - its becoming more pointless by the day to compare. Both formats are now certainly here to stay. I predict you'll see a lot more studios start going dual-format soon. It would be interesting to see how well something like Spiderman sells on HD-DVD (or Transformers on BluRay). Its just becoming a brand/marketing issue. |
But what about the $99 HD DVD players? Toshiba said they sold 90,000 over the weekend, which is about 15-20% of total standalone sales for Toshiba (they've sold a little over 400,000 so far). That should've boosted software sales a good bit, but it didn't.
I think it confirms my theory that people waiting to buy $99 players won't buy too many $30 movies. Of course, we'll need a few more weeks worth of data to truly see the affect of the new owners.
