Washington, D.C. (August 23, 2007) - Blu-ray will still win the high-def disc format war against rival HD DVD despite Paramount's decision to back HD DVD exclusively. That's the verdict from the UK-based research firm Understanding & Solutions, as reported by Video Business.
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
HDDVD offers the most interactive features with U-control and also includes online functionality in every HDDVD player.
For the price and most features you can't go wrong with HDDVD with players starting as low as $299. Not to mention Universal(one of the markets biggest movie producers is going exclusive with HDVD), and Paramount just jumped in. All the other big movie producers are sure to follow when the cheap $199 players arrive this Christmas and start flying off shelves.
And the article is wrong bc HDDVD will get Shrek as well as Transformers this year from Paramount exclusively.(So it isn't just taking movies from Bluray it is also gaining).
One thing is for sure if you like huge blockbuster movies like The Bourne Ultimatum and Transformers you would be a fool to pass up HDDVD this Holiday season.
We all know this isn't true. The casual bulk will decide as they always have.
When you have Microsoft paying 150 million dollars to companies just to make movies for your format you are letting the world know just how dead your format is.
BluRay has taken over the entire world. Every country outside of the US has gone completely BluRay, all of Asia, all of Europe, all of South America.
The latest US sales figures from Nielson have BluRay at 71% vs a pathetic 29% for the dead HD-DVD format. The trend lines are straight down every month for HD-DVD.
Target has dumped the dead HD-DVD format and gone exclusively BluRay.
Blockbuster has dumped the dead HD-DVD format and gone exclusively BluRay.
The only people still clinging to the dead HD-DVD format are foaming at the mouth Xbox/Microsoft fanboys desperately buying their weekly allowance from mommy on the tiny and crappy HD-DVD library of movies hoping that they will somehow keep the format for rotting away.
No one wants to be stuck with a crappy and gimped HD format like HD-DVD that only has 30gigs of space(vs 50 gigs for BluRay) and only has one manufacturer, Toshiba, making players, and a giant ugly and crappy 200 addon to the most defective console ever made, the Dreamcast 360.
The PS3 is the best best BluRay player on the market right now and is leaving the tiny HD-DVD installed base in the dust in all three regions of the world.
scarlett_rg, go F yourself.
Buh bye HD-DVD no one but idiotic Xbots will miss you.
Ignorant Fanboy,
100 Million to buy off Paramount
50 Million for Dreamworks
What an idiot. Buh bye HD-DVD!
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Hey Bloodmask, I like big hit blockbuster movies. I also like Blockbuster (Ohh snap!!). Can I buy/rent HD-DVDs at Blockbuster? Nope. What about Target? Hmm...don't think I could. I find you'd have to either be stupid or just a queer to pass up Blu-Ray for Shrek, lmao. If you want to talk movie companies, how about Fox? MGM? Disney? So you don't want to see Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Live Free Or Die Hard, or Prison Break with exclusive content jam-packed on 50 GB Blu-Ray discs? Of course you don't. You'd rather watch Shrek.