When contacted for additional clarification, the Universal spokesman offered the following:
"We remain fully committed to trying to sell our remaining inventories of HD-DVD software. We have already made significant financial commitments to additional advertising, as well as the production of several titles in the pipeline not yet at retail; we would prefer not to lose 100% of that incremental investment by the sudden complete halting of HD-DVD product sales. We encourage...
Spokesmen for the companies went on to say: "We remain fully committed to trying to sell our remaining inventories of HD-DVD hardware and software. We have already made significant financial commitments to additional advertising, as well as the production of several titles in the pipeline not yet at retail; we would prefer not to lose 100% of that incremental investment by the sudden complete halting of HD-DVD product sales. We encourage all consumers to consider purchasing HD-DVD pro...
This is all starting to sound very familiar - haven't we been here before? Bold predictions about how HD-DVD is gonna pwn, how no one's gonna buy the expensive PS3, how games will never need BD storage, how no one wants HDMI, how XBL is supposedly the better service because you 'get what you pat for', how Halo3 is gonna sell a billion consoles, and yabba dabba doo.
So go ahead, if it makes you feel better to predict some rosy scenario about how it'll take 20 years for PS3 sale...
Am I the only one who thinks he looks like Ricky Bobby when he speaks?
"I don't know what to do with my hands."
Vgchartz seems to present weekly data, as opposed to monthly. This is likely the reason you're not seeing an 'entire' month. You probably wouldn't find many people who would agree that they're big Sony fans.
And you may be right regarding the imminent "beating" of the PS3. But draw some lines on a graph, and they sure don't seem to be going in that direction. Nor does anything else seem to support this conclusion. Talk is cheap, and as the last year has shown, an...
Thanks pshizle for elaborating on your earlier comments. I think you've given me a clearer understanding of the level of technical knowledge (and command of English spelling and grammar) of the average HD-DVD supporter.
The information you've provided relative to the two formats should be useful to anyone considering a purchase. Nicely done.
I guess there's no more denying it, although I'm still keen to hear what creative spin people can come up with.
Sales of the X360 have gone from first place to last in 1 year (and only 9 months outside of Japan & N.A.). The X360 is being outsold by both the PS3 and the PS2 (the PSP also, but that's piling on). The X360 still has a long way to go even to sell as many systems as the Xbox1 did.
I'm not saying these facts are good or bad. It's just interesting...
"hddvd has a great and easy menu": Really? You mean they force a standard menu on you, and don't let the content authors create their own menus (like DVDs)? Wow, I had no idea about this limitation of HD-DVD.
"filmware (firmware?) updates": And Blu-ray doesn't allow firmware updates? Again, I had no idea about this particular limitation.
"amazing picture quality": Damn, I knew there was a reason I should've gone with HD-DVD - a...
It's a shame that every topic has to turn into the same old "your console sucks" back-n-forth. But comments like that above - repeating myth as fact - do little to discourage this:
"Well wow Mr Ps3...if Xbox sucks...and it outselling the Ps3 overall...then what does that make the Ps3? "
Please define "outselling" and "overall". Outselling, used in the present tense, and "overall" as in worldwide? That certainly...
1) Get rid of the standard hard drive, to fracture the user base and not allow developers to have a standard way to cache data.
2) Adopt a smaller media format, like maybe DVD or even CDROM, to give developers less resources to work with, and give gamers less interesting games.
3) Sell an ugly external add-on unit, with another ugly power brick and more cables, for playing HD movies only, so they can charge more for another peripheral.
4) Substitute the all-digital signal...
Ok, I give up. I don't know if you're being funny, or truly believe any of this, or are just another HD-DVD dead-ender looking for any glimmer of hope. I suspect the latter.
"The first batch of combo players are expensive. That is only going to get cheaper as mfg's learn how to adjust the beam accordingly."
You miss the point: the engineering hassle and expense required to create a combo player is a barrier for doing it in the FIRST place. The longer...
Hehehe, I was fine with just reading all the comments (along with some pretty good zingers), waiting for something new from the HD-DVD backers other than the basic "Nuh-uh" argument. But this one I hadn't heard before:
@50: "...inevitable that there will be a convergence as the bd profile gets to the same as hddvd and the fact that costs for the blue diode ... is getting cheaper to produce means that more companies will find no reason to alienate one format ove...
Oh dear. Only one year in, and the X-thingy has gone from first place to last. For those who care about the whole "horse race" thing, this is not gonna be pretty...
Hehehe. Yeah, that was intense. Not "17-straight-hours-of-ted ious-Mass-Effect-dialog-and-loa ding-screens" intense, but still.
(oops, I think I got all fanboy there for a sec.)
Ooooh, snap!
^^^^^
Can I get an "Amen!"?
I haaaaate that. If the freakin' cut-scene looks so much better than the game graphics, it totally destroys immersion. Hello developers? Why don't you just throw some live video in there? Then we'd be back to some of those games from the 80s.
HA!
My console is better than yours! I told you so! I am the ULTIMATE POWER!!!
@43: "That's weird that he reviewed 2 games at one time. It seemed like he just targeted what he believed is the PS3's best games and just trashed them on purpous."
Whoa! Props to you and foo on me for not seeing the obvious whiz right by. Seriously, when have you EVER seen someone review two games at once? This wasn't even a "review" as it barely talked about the games themselves. The whole point was basically "The best PS3 games totally suck!&quo...
Hip-hip-hooray! We finally found someone who can come up with a couple of criticisms of two great PS3 games. Of course, we had to trawl all the way to West Fumbuck, Indiana to find him. I wonder what sort of "award" they give to "columnists" there... "Most Compelling Investigative Reporting into Cow-Tipping"?
The reason why MS gets lumped into this is because they are the party who bears most direct responsibility for the HD format war. If not for their 11th hour decision to discard neutrality and endorse HD-DVD - once it became clear that Sony's console was going to own theirs if they didn't - and their throwing wads of cash at Toshiba and Universal, the format war never would have been, or would certainly have been far shorter.
"MS is neither a hardware nor tv/movie studio ...