Considering PS3 has 16% of the next-gen game market share; 35% of the next-gen movie market share for HD DVD doesn't look so bad. Especially when you consider that 2 high-profile Disney releases hit last week.
It would seem to me that HD DVD is one big move away from winning this thing and Sony is more than happy to focus on its video game division and leave the money-draining format war behind.
First week of sales:
Transformers HD DVD: 190,000
Spiderman 3 Blu-ray: 130,000
I hope none of you guys are believe this garbage. The A1, which the article was referring to, uses a Pentium processer, other off the shelf components and was made in Japan.
The A2, the next model, and the one that was sold for $99, uses an integrated chip design and was manufactured in China. There is absolutely no comparison between the two.
I’m sure Toshiba (or Wal-mart) ate some money on the deal, but it’s more like $50 to $100 and not $500.
The burden is on Disney to explain why they are not releasing movies on the format that more families can afford.
This Disney guy is a douche bag (and I would say the same thing if it was an HD DVD guy insulting Blu-ray backers).
Wal-mart is going to carry both, with $198 HD DVD players to be featured on end-caps starting this Saturday.
According to their website, there are 1,388 Kmart stores across 49 states.
I agree that this story is funny, but hey, it can’t be a bad thing for HD DVD.
Looks like Circuit City has A2s for $197 (online and in store).
I know some Wal-marts aren't selling them until 11/3
Just look at Blu-ray’s top 10 list tomorrow and you’ll see movies that haven’t been there in weeks or months, all part of the free disc promotion. The real flaw is that free discs are even tracked as sales.
This story makes no mention of the fact that a large percentage of Blu-ray discs given away free as part of a “buy one get one free promotion” the BDA put on to counter Transformers.
If anything, the bigger story is the trick Blu-ray used to win this week’s sales numbers.
Ha! Actually, I have a PS3, I got it on launch day last year. I just wasn't very impressed, although I thought Resistance & Motorstorm were good. I’m keeping it though, I’m not going to sell it. I’m very curious about this “Little Big Planet” and of course, I have to get Resistance 2 when it comes out (fall of next year?). I just like the games on Xbox better and I felt a lot of arrogance from Sony. At some point Sony became less about offering the best value and more about “you’ll buy Bl...
Considering over 80% of the HDTVs sold today are 720p/1080i – and those users would see absolutely no benefit to a 1080p machine – this is an awesome deal for the masses.
Well.. except that HD DVD has the #1 selling high-def title with a record 190,000 copies sold in the first week.. and HD DVD standalone players are still outselling Blu-ray players... and HD DVD laptops sell 9 to 1 over Blu-ray laptops... good thing PS3 sales are so bad they are doing another $100 price cut (within 4 months)... otherwise, without PS3, Blu-ray would be gone by now...
There is really a site called sonyprotectiongroup.com? Are things really that bad for Sony?
Something needing "protection" implies that it is in danger..
They already do. Fox, Disney, WB... they all got incentives to support Blu-ray...
Great move by the HD DVD camp to get this one exclusive. Just what the format needed.
The only problem is the phrase "so as not to limit the user’s experience" does not appear in the article. Whoever wrote this story made that line up...
From the article: "A spokesperson for Tosh told Stuff.tv: ‘Toshiba has no comment to make on this matter. The Xbox 360 is not a Toshiba product.’"
Nowhere in the article does it say "Microsoft doesn’t want to include the HD DVD drive"
Did stuff.tv change the article or did the person who made this story for N4G change the quote?
Big surprise.. the username that submitted this "article" is also the wordpress name in the link..
Linking a screenshot proves what?