Blu-ray sales update

[dallas]

kowenicki said:

dallas said:

Blu-ray has been getting around 30% marketshare in terms of actual dollars spent on physical media disks in the U.S, up from 20% a couple of years ago.  Seriously,  microsoft would be shooting themselves in the foot if they didnt include a bluray player in their next console

I'd put a blu-ray in if I was them, but perhaps they believe downloads/streaming will take off even more in the next few years. 

There is really no reason for them not to put a blu-ray in now that others have taken the financial pain of gaining some adoption in the market.

Blu ray will be needed more for game capacity than movie playback IMO.

yeah, i def agree about the capacity reasoning, but regardless this will push the adoption of more blu-ray purchased, as now we will have 2 out of the 3 major brands of consoles supporting blu-ray.  I like HD so i think that this will be a great thing.  Perhaps we will see 35-40% bluray marketshare a year or two after the 720 comes out.