Blu-rays sale percentage tracking

[TheBigFatJ]

ssj12 said:

TheBigFatJ said:

ssj12 said:

This thread is to track the weekly sales percentages posted by Neilson VideoScan for Blu-ray vs HD-DVD and Blu-ray vs DVD.

 

3/28: Blu-ray 88% HD-DVD 12% DVD 94% Blu-ray 6% - Source

 

 

That 94% vs 6% number is *completely* misleading as that is the BD top 20 vs the DVD top 20. Considering there has been no huge releases lately and there's a much smaller set of BD discs for new BD owners (and old BD owners alike) to choose from compared to DVD, comparing such a tiny fraction of the market (only top 20) will *heavily* favor BD.

The number could very well be 98% DVD vs 2% BD.

you can't compare a product 8 years ago vs a product now very easy. Thats like saying the PS2 is killing the Wii in sales this generation. You can only compare the top selling titles. Nielson VideoScan is highly respected in the industry so if they wish to track the top 20 best selling titles of the week I'm not arguing and you shouldn't either.

I'm not arguing, I'm simply stating the fact that it is misleading. They're comparing such a tiny section of the market and therefore it is going to be very favorable to BD, which doesn't have the breadth of DVD. That's my only contingency, and my contingency is correct.

There's nothing wrong with Nielson -- they even state that they're only comparing the top 20. It's up to the reader to realize what that means, and I'm only pointing this out so that all of the readers have an extra chance to notice it.

Look at the releases for DVD.  Nothing.  No good new releases, nothing that will get a lot of sales. So while DVD owners are buying outside of the new releases list, and BD owners are as well, BD owners are more likely to be buying the same 20 DVDs because they have many, many fewer to choose from.  Before you get excited about that 8%, realize that it is an incomplete and temporary number.  We don't even know what movies are in the top 20 for each.