I bet that the attach rate is more important than overall sales to studios. That number lets the studios estimate demand for their films better than looking at overall sales from the last movie. By being able to know up front what to expect in terms of sales they can produce the number of discs that most likely will sell and not have to carry excess inventory that has to be surplussed as overstock.
When it comes to games, the attach rate is one consideration with whether a game...
I have 20 Blu-ray movies. I buy them when there are deals. Like I got the first two Pirates of the Caribbean movies for $24 yesterday on the Amazon buy 1 get 1 free offer.
I don't care what the reviews are. I've been waiting for this game forever. My only concern is whether I'll get the PS3 version or the 360 version.
Platformers are probably more expensive to make than shooters considering all of the engines out there to power shooters. Heck, shooters don't even need storylines these days. Just drop in generic online play where you get to shoot anything and everything around you, swap out humans for aliens or monsters or something, and a couple hours of single-plater play for people with no friends and the mindless masses can't get enough. Just crank out map after map.
Shooters are killing ...
HD-DVD is a better deal if that's what you want.
Yeah, I guess I should have said that it sucks from my perspective. I already have a lot of the good ones, and there are a few stinkers in there.
Just added the two available Pirates movies to my Blu-ray collection. The Sony collection kinda sucks.
I doubt that people bought their Wii's for Dolby Pro Logic. This doesn't mean anything.
Should not void a warranty and does not void a warranty have two completely different meanings. Sounds like some butthurt fanboy drama queen was on a mission to prove that the PS3 is more reliable than anything ever.
People can say what they will, but from my personal experience with Sony customer support I have no reason to believe that they wouldn't try to weasel out of warranty coverage.
I think that if Sony catches flack over BC then they have nobody to blame but themselves. One of the PS3's original marketing points was near 100% BC with PS2 and PS1 games.
"Backwards compatibility, as you know from PlayStation One and PlayStation 2, is a core value of what we believe we should offer. And access to the library of content people have created, bought for themselves, and accumulated over the years is necessary to create a format. PlayStation is a format mean...
I don't think that most people are supporting Blu-ray simply because Sony says to. The thing is that mass market really doesn't care about this format war. Absolutely nobody I know has gone out specifically to buy a HD movie player. So having one in the PS3 makes the choice a matter of convenience more than loyalty. For the average consumer a $50 upscaling DVD player is more than enough to get enjoyment out of their HD television.
To be fair, Blu-ray and HD-DVD combined have such a very small percentage of the overall DVD market that it is safe to say that neither of them are really doing all that well. When you look at only the HD market the statistics seem really dramatic, but having 70% of ~5% of overall disc sales isn't really all that impressive. I think that both formats have a considerable uphill battle and there is no clear winner right now.
I've made my choice in the format war simply by the fact that I bought a PS3. I only have so much room in my entertainment center. It currently contains my stereo receiver, digital cable box, PS3, 360 and Wii. I just don't have space for a stand-alone HD-DVD player. I don't even have room for the 360 add-on player.
I suspect that Sony was counting on consumers like me in gaining acceptance of the Blu-ray format. To be honest, I still buy the majority of my movies on DVD becaus...
It wasn't the kid that needed the smack, it was his mother.
That's the truth. From my own personal experience with SCEA customer support I have no problems believing that this happened. They told me that the broken drive in my PS2 was because of customer abuse.
When people buy these things at these prices I hope they don't actually expect for them to be delivered. By now it is common knowledge that these kinds of mistakes are rarely honored.
Like it or not, any transaction is bound by the terms and conditions on the website. Their liability ends there since by using the website you agree to those terms.
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If publishers want to make more money and undercut Gamestop they need to drop the prices, not raise them. They would probably sell twice as many copies at $40 as they do at $60 and they would earn an additional 25% revenue to boot.
I know if games were only $40 I'd buy three or four a month.
I'll buy used games, but I won't trade my stuff in. I have the Edge card, so I get 10% off of used games and accessories. So a $55 game is only $49.50. If I'm saving $10 over buying new then that's what I'm going to do.
I don't know. Gamestop was going to give me $25 for my copy of Halo 3. I sold it on eBay for $45. All it cost me was a trip to the post office.
I haven't installed the update yet. Looks like I won't be, either.