naznatips said:
JSF said:
naznatips said:
windbane said:
naznatips said:
I agree that it's certainly not garunteed a Sony format will fail, but it's not looking good. HD-DVD sold 60% of HD players last month according to another topic on VGchartz, so it's not only holding on but holding EVEN. A 2 man struggle between the 2 will only result in them hurting each other's sales until something much better comes along. HVD will probably be that replacement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc |
Those sales did not include the PS3. Also, movie sales favor blu-ray in every multi-platform release except Planet Earth, perhaps. |
No, they don't include PS3 sales, but they obviously aren't helping. "The group also announced that HD-DVD is achieving a 4 to 1 movie attach rate over Blu-ray, and set a new high for movie sales in May, highlighted by more than 75,000 units sold in the last week of the month." A 4 to 1 favor for HD-DVD, which is HUGE. Edited for source: http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=3039 yes you will have to follow that to IGN if you want the direct source, but it's directly cited. |
Why do you consider attach rates to be more important than overall disc sales? Also, Toshiba estimates 1 million HD-DVD sales this year. The PS3 alone is going to sell more than 1 million units before the end of this year. HD-DVD cannot win. They can only try to stay even. As for HVD, no studios are signed on for HVD, and it sounds too different from what people are currently used to. Frankly, HVD sounds like the makings of the next laserdisc: several generations too early. How do you even put a $500 disc player next to a $15,000 one? |
Lol what do you think attach rates are? They are the amount of discs sold per system. Let's do some math: if the HD-DVD has 60% of standalone players, and sells 4 to 1 the amount of discs as the stand alone Blu-Ray, obviously the amount of disc sales is higher. That doesn't count the PS3, but even if everyone who bought the PS3 bought at least 1 movie (and I know they haven't), it wouldn't reach that number.
I'm not saying HD-DVD will win. I just think it will hold the playing field even for so long that neither will win. |
Dude, blu-ray dominates every month now in movie sales. If blu-ray has sold more every single month this year, then obviously blu-ray is selling better.
