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JHawkNH on 08 April 2008
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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.


Actually it is funny that you should bring up the argument of the PS2.  Isn't the same type of thing happening with the PS2 software sales?  Because the majority of it's title fall oustide the top 200, those sales don't get added to the totals for PS2 software.  PS2 software is actually probably the best selling from week to week, but because it is spread across so many titles below the top 200, the real total doesn't show up.

I know you are just trying to work with the data that is available, but you have to understand some of the counter aguments as to why this isn't a good comparison of the Bluray vs DVD markets.  I would really like to see what percantage of sales for each format are in the top 20 only.  It would be nice to see what the true market percantages are.