You're correct. DVD surpassed VHS in terms of market share globally by 2003. Blu-ray has gotten close to matching DVD as they compete for market share, but not close enough. And it's never surpassed DVD's market share. And UHD will likely be the final physical home media format. It won't ever surpass the DVD or Blu-ray market share. In fact, some corporations already stopped making UHD players. And they're still making Blu-ray players despite that. 

Well your ass is right :P

I agree, it didnt really catch on like from VHS to DVD because it was really just a 'upgraded' version of a DVD.  But despite the not-so-huge impact it made, blu-ray it's now the physical standard in every household for movies and home consoles games so I wonder if that's enough of a win for Sony and others in the blu-ray party.  But now its just been a tough battle between physical and digital lol.

In my household we bought several Blu Ray movies in the beginning but after maybe the first year, streaming/digital was just too convenient. If not for the digital era, things would definitely be different. I just wish digital had the same extras that physical media has.

Yea I always wondered why they never put any of the extras on digital as well.  Odd business choice :/

I would argue MS already fucked up years before the end of the last gen by putting too much focus on Kinect while leaving the hardcore gamer scratching their heads why they were no longer the target audience when looking at first party software. I followed the same path, my 360 was collecting dust at the end of last gen. The machine itself died twice, the HD DVD add-on became pointless after blu-ray won, and I had no interest in Kinect games. After I got a ps3 I also cancelled live gold since even though multi plats ran slightly better on 360, why pay $60 a year to play them online...

So yep I agree with all you said except that MS set themselves up to make even better strides this gen. TV TV TV and Kinect put the final nail in the coffin when this gen was about to start.

I would say it's a tie, but if I had to choose between the two, I would probably give it to 360. This was the console gen when MS established themselves as a competitive force in console gaming all thanks to 360.

You can't just write out Japan and claim that all the other countries were won by 360. It's not how it works. I don't have the sales data for each country but if I were to guess, PS3 won in the majority of markets where both consoles were available. It's just that the lead of 360 in US (the biggest console market) over PS3 was so huge that it compensated all the losses they had everywhere. So, to sum this up, I am almost sure that the majority of users here on VGC lived in a country where PS3 beat 360 and not the other way around unless this said user lived in US or UK.

More than 1b

PS3 lost marketshare for Sony during its first years but got it back by the end of the generation. Xbox 360 had a great start and solid sales overall. Commercially probably 360, in the long run PS3 because they kept support for longer and overall sold more YOY. Also the 360 lost a some customer confidence over RROD issues.

I went all in with blu-ray, double dipped on a large part of my DVD collection and have over 600 blu-rays. Blu-ray was a huge step up from DVD both in image and sound quality. No more full-screen / wide-screen distortions or 3:2 pull down crap and far fewer compression artifacts. Max of 9.8 mbps for mpeg-2 video compared to max of 48 mbps for h.264 video.

UHD however, small increase in image quality (no where near the 5x jump from dvd to blu-ray), no difference in sound. They went cheap with UHD and lost their target audience. I've been a videophile since LaserDisc and went straight to S-VHS for recording. UHD just not good enough. After reading reviews of early releases I decided to stick to blu-ray. It's still better quality than 4K streaming and has all the sound options and extras.

It's not only that UHD players are already getting abandoned, many movies aren't available on 4K blu-ray either, and many that are have faked or bad HDR added on top. I rather have none than artificially added or enhanced HDR.

Long live Blu-ray. Hurry up Amazon, release The Expanse S4 on blu-ray already!

To be fair, Sony never got their pre-PS3 market share back and probably never will. This ship has sailed. In PS2 days they had enormous 70% market share. Something like this just seems highly unlikely in the future unless MS and Nintendo both will start to move away from consoles in some way leaving Playstation as the only option for console gamers.