This might end up being as big as Gears. The reviews coming in have been near perfect. Thank God I have mine pre-ordered!
If you were planning on buying them at the same time anyway, this sweetens the deal. This won't shatter sales records or anything, but it may be a hint of things to come this holiday season.
4 new models were announced this week (3 from Toshiba, 1 from ONKYO). 300 is on the verge of selling over 100,000 copies (does everything have to be compared to Blu-ray? If a studio knows they can sell an extra 100,000 copies by supporting HD DVD, isn't that worth it?) and details are starting to emerge about cheaper, Chinese made players. Toshiba has an amazing 61% of the standalone market share. Microsoft drives are still selling great after the price cut / promotion. ‘Heroes Season 1’, ‘St...
HD DVD and Blu-ray are doing just fine and growing the market. This holiday season will tell us a lot about what the public thinks.
Should be a fun battle!
As much as I wish, this is likely not true. I would need a better source than a Gamestop employee to believe this.
Still, it makes sense that it will eventually happen.
HD DVD has a larger market share in high-def movies than PS3 has in video games. For those that say HD DVD is dead, then you must really believe that PS3 is dead, given that it’s performing worse in its market.
HD DVD players are still selling better than standalone Blu-ray players. "Some consumer electronics retailers" the keyword being "some". The two retailers in question are relatively small.
Just look on Amazon, there are usually 2 or 3 HD DVD players before the first standalone player.
Did standalone Blu-ray player sales improved when they dropped the price to $500 and copied HD DVD's successful 5 free movie promotion? Of course they did. But H...
Standalone High-def Player Market Share: 61% HD DVD - 36% Blu-ray - 3% Dual Format
Looks like more people are choosing HD DVD. Of course, PS3 gives Blu-ray an early lead, but the hardcore movie fan is clearly choosing HD DVD.
HD DVD can do everything that Blu-ray can do (1080p, lossless audio) and more (PiP, web features, etc) for hundreds less. I think HD DVD will sweep this holiday in a landslide and we'll see all major studios support HD DVD by early next year.
Just my opinion, we'll see what consumers decide. Although, unlike DVD & VHS, I think the market can support 2 formats.
With this player, the 3 newly announced Toshiba models, the Xbox HD DVD drive, Toshiba laptops with HD DVD and cheaply priced players from China coming soon, I’d say there is an HD DVD player in everyone’s budget.
I’m looking at the high-end A35 Toshiba player just announced for $500.
Blu-ray and HD DVD look 10 times better than upscaled standard DVDs.
Even the standard edition is $60. This means the title is guaranteed $60 million in sales almost 2 months before it ships. Absolutely amazing.
Thanks, that's all I wanted to hear. I completely agree with you.
"most people bought their PS3 to buy games"
Everyone who bought a HD DVD player bought it for one thing only: to buy and watch movies. So, now that MS has lowered the Xbox drive and Toshiba has announced 3 new HD DVD models, it should start becoming clear the HD DVD is moving into a better position than Blu-ray, which is totally dependent on the PS3.
Blu-ray (counting PS3) has a 5 to 1 hardware advantage over HD DVD. Why are the sales 2 to 1 and not 5 to 1?
Xbox has a 5 to 1 hardware advantage over PS3 and NCAA sold better on Xbox by 5 to 1.
The only logical answer is that most PS3 owners are NOT buying Blu-ray movies. And if that's the case, then it was a mistake by Sony to include an expensive Blu-ray player in PS3. I can come to no other conclusion.
With PS3, Blu-ray has a 5 to 1 hardware advantage, yet all they can do it 2 to 1 in software and the HD DVD Combo disk was $5 more???? Pathetic!
HD DVD is in position to take the lead this holiday. New lower-priced hardware is on the way, Xbox HD DVD drives are still selling great and there are more surprises to come.
They put out movies in both formats and they are letting the customer decide. Looks like the strategy is working, because their high-def sales are better than any other studio. I hope other studios will follow putting movies on both formats. We can end this war and all live in peace again :-)
Looks like PS3 sales are starting to slip... and the Xbox price cut hasn't even started...
Why not just buy the 60 GB, the game and save $40? The hard drive is upgradable, but you'll never be able to add emotion engine chips. I bet you when the 60 GB units are gone, they are going to be highly sought after because of the extra hardware.
Just my opinion!
I'd rather have the 60 GB with emotion engine chips inside and $100 in my pocket.
This doesn't take into account the free King Kong movie included with the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive. It ignores the headset included with the Xbox 360 and it assumes that you need Wi-Fi.