The high definition format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray could be all over in 18 months time. That's what the Chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association hinted at today in an interview with Tech.co.uk.
"Due to the fact that we have some hard competition which sometimes makes strange moves, it's very unpredictable. But I think in the next 18 months it will be very exciting to see what's going on.
A plethora of new products, Simonis says, will create competition between manufacturers of the different players, driving prices down. That coupled with competition from a rival disc format means that we could soon be looking at far cheaper Blu-ray players than are available today.
"We don't like to oversell ourselves, but we right now see that there is a major transition taking place from publishers who said they would initially go only for HD DVD and now make the move across the Blu-ray. [This is] based on the sales numbers of software happening in the Far East, US and also now in Europe.
"In the US you see that 70 per cent of the titles sold are Blu-ray and this is no different everywhere else. Publishers are moving to Blu-ray and now is definitely the time to join.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
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So he's saying as soon as the Paramount deal ends the war will be over.
didnt they say the war would be over this holiday season? and that the paramount deal wont change anything? owell he is right.
Now which game comes out 18 months from now? FFXIII is that game that will sell PS3s and each PS3 is a blu-ray player.
The Paramount stuff doesn't really change anything other than increasing BluRay Paramount sales in the short term and delay new releases until the 100 million Microsoft spent to keep them off BluRay runs out.
There are going to be too many BluRay playing PS3s out there by the end of 2007 for HD-DVD to ever have a chance to recover.
Worldwide the US is the only place HD-DVD really is still alive, Asia and Europe are either completely BluRay or will soon be so.
Blockbuster and Target have already gone BluRay.
Sales are in the 2-1 to 3-1 range now and have been steadily growing each month as more and more people buy PS3s and BluRay standalones.
When things are over for HD-DVD really depends on if you want to call the format dead when it is clear it is no longer viable or when Toshiba actually pulls the plug and stops making HD-DVD players.