| Mars said: lmao umm bud there is no downlaodable media for it to beat. downlaod rentals mean nothing compared to a physical disk. |
iTunes Movies Sold
1,300,000
From period: Sept. 12, 2006 - Jan 10, 2007
HD-DVDs Sold
650,000
From period: March 31, 2006 - March 9, 2007
Blu-Ray Movies Sold
675,000
From period: March 3, 2003 - March 9, 2007
Mind you, this was BEFORE Apple rolled out the AppleTV with HD and downloadable HD movies which, surprisingly, only cost about $5 more and are only a few GB more.
They've also added HD movie rentals, and thanks to the akamai servers, you can start watching a movie minutes after choosing to rent it and it will continue to download seamlessly in the background.
Then there's Direct TV which has been around for even longer, and Netflix's "$20 for all the movies you want" online download service is becoming increasingly popular.
It's all moving toward downloadable content: games, movies, TV, all of it. Storage is becoming cheaper all the time, internet connections are becoming faster all the time. All of this will move to an online model within the next 3-5 years.
How can DLC not be a threat when DLC is already kicking BR's ass?
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
