friedtofu said:
Fans from both sides have the predicament of contradicting themselves when it comes to hd format wars + console wars. My god has this shit been beaten to death over and over. On one side Sony fans are saying why should Toshiba waste their time with hddvd, its a losing format, AND the PS3 isnt failing and its selling lots of software given its smaller user base. Yet on the other end why should Sony waste their time on ps3, its a losing console, and HDDVD is selling very well given its smaller user base. In hddvd's defense, given the 6 MILLION PS3's plus 400K(?) Blu-ray standalones vs 750K hddvd stand alones + xbox hddvd add-ons combined, doesnt a 66:34 ratio look pretty damn GOOD for hddvd? Do hddvd owners just buy more movies? One thing Ive wanted to hear peoples thoughts on, that was brought up in another forum, is why 2 hd formats couldnt survive side by side. "It works for consoles, shouldnt it work for movies?" I dont personally believe this would work myself, since movie studios dont have hardware sales they need to stand behind. Anyone else have thoughts on this? |
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edit: just realised a bit an error in the above. I believe the article is america only so the proper comparision is
HD-DVD: 750k
Blu-ray:2.61million ps3s plus stand alone (not 6 million ps3 since that's WW)
either way blu-ray really ought to have a larger market share than 66:34 since the player ratio is 78:22 minimum, i took blu-ray standalone to be zero since i don't know what the number is.