makingmusic476 on 30 November 2007
| Delusional said: LOL. this has become a fanboy thread. There were actually more buy ps3 get 5-10 free movie deals outside of walmart than buy hd dvd player get 3 free during black friday. |
No.
All Blu-Ray and HD DVD players have "5 free by mail" deals going on. These are not counted in the Nielson data. Store liks Best Buy, etc. were giving away 3 extra HD DVDs with every HD DVD player sold, instantly. These would've been counted towards the Nielson's.
The 10 instant BDs with 80gb ps3 deal only happaned at Wal-mart, and thus is not counted in the Nielson's. However, Best Buy gave away a copy of Open Season with every ps3 sold, so those would've been counted in the Nielson's, but that one title wouldn't have had much impact against the many free movies given away at multiple retailers on the HD DVD side.
Basically, Blu-Ray is still going strong, despite Toshiba dropping prices and pushing hardware.
