Blu-ray sales update

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mitlar37 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

Where are you getting 30% from? The most I've seen is about 25%. The latest report is 21%

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/market-analysis/sales-report-week-ended-071412

In terms of actual unit sales it's more like 15%, and this after what - 6 yrs on the market. Also these figures are just the top 20 sales only. If they could track the $5 bargain bin dvds found everywhere the numbers would skew even more in dvd's favor.  Blu-ray is proving to be just a niche market.  Plus you still don't have pc games on blu-ray and probably never will. I think ms should do the pc thing and put hard drives in all there nextboxes and and cheap dvd drives just like pcs. What does it take to install a pc game nowadays - 30 minutes? How long are the mandatory blu-ray installs?

about 5 hours on average