| S.T.A.G.E. said: Blu Ray on Nintendo and Microsoft following Sony will expand Blu Ray adoption, but yes Sony has already done most of the work that needed to be done the same way they did with DVD's during the PS2 era. Blu Ray has been big a relatively short amount of time. It wasnt until like half way through the PS3 era that it started to pick up speed on stand-alone players. DVD's first came out in 1995 and no one could afford it until the Playstation 2 in 2001, so the Blu Ray market will slowly eat away at the DVD market. |
DVD's first came out in 1996. In Japan only, USA in december 97, Europe 98 and didn't go fully world wide until 1999.
The DVD standard was finalized in 1995 if that's what you mean. It wasn't actually released then though.
Blu-ray has lagged behind DVD in pretty much every sales indicator except for player sales... only because of the PS3.
Not just in marketshare numbers but in just pure physical numbers. Which is fascinating considering the increase in the market.
By 2003 DVD was considered to have a majority of marketshare by pretty much everybody.
By Blu-rays timeline that would be 2012. We're sitting at 2013 and it's still only sitting at around 40% total sales on a statistic that only counts the top 50 movies. Which is a measure that's slanted towards new media... and despite the fact that the PS3 came out before the PS1 respectivly lifetime..
