ssj12 on 15 June 2007
| shams said: 6000 units = 1% (?) of the movie market. Its also selling at the huge rate of 60 movies / day - across a market of 25million. Its not surprising at all. Most retailers (including all of the big ones such as JB HiFi) are not selling or stocking HD-DVD movies (I have never seen one here in fact). The Australian market is so small, this is completely irrelevant. It will only become relevant when CHEAP (i.e. sub $200 HD players) are released. Australia, BTW, has one of the highest ratios of downloading/copying pirate movies from the Internet. About 40k PS3's have been sold here since launch (approx). So almost 1 in 10 PS3 owners buys a BluRay movie? |
yes everything you said is true but think about it. It maybe a small market there but its still a section of the market that can help more then hurt to have control of. Sony according to the latest neilson numbers controls 59% of the HD Disc market which means the more sales they receive the more market they can gain. If more then 1/5 PS3 owners started to buy more discs in Australia wouldnt that help their overall numbers? of course.
