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the growth in Europe and other markets is strong.
Last week sales were at 195,606 units(+23%) and total at 2,702,120. This is since 19th March 2007, so it only took 9 month.
America sales last week are at 160,374 units(+3%), and a total of 2,908,827 since 20th November 2006. So the 3,000,000 mark will be passed before Christmas.
see link
- http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PS3®1=America&cons2=PS3®2=Japan&cons3=PS3®3=Total+Other&start=39033&end=39425&weekly=1 (Open in New Window)
Follow Ups:
392,191 were sold to nerdy Dungeons and Dragon type geeks to play games instead of getting a life, and who think Blu Ray is one of the weapons in Afterlife III.
73 were mistakenly purchased as air purifiers
2 for use as aquariums
1 as a doorstop
44 as Blu-Ray Players to watch the Matrix over and over
2 as serious high def video players.
According to the link you posted... total cumulative sales of the PS3 from 11/12/06 to 12/9/07 equal 7,194,575.
Xbox 360 cumulative sales from 11/12/06 to 12/9/07:
14,558,327.
That's over twice as many Xbox 360s sold compared to the PS3 in the same amount of time.
I think this illustrates why you cannot use PS3 sales to cheerlead the Blue Ray format. If the fact that The Blue ray playing PS3 has sold 7 million units is the basis for concluding that Blue ray is gaining ground... then the 14 Million HD-DVD playing Xbox 360s sold in the same time period should throw Blue ray back to last place.
FWIW... I am not advocating HD DVD over Blue Ray. Personally I am waiting on the sidelines to see which format wins. I look at this as nothing more than the digital ages' "Betamax vs. VHS" Remember... Beta, while the superior format in both sound and video... failed. Who made Betamax? Sony.
Just something to think about.
- http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=X360®1=America&cons2=X360®2=Japan&cons3=X360®3=Total+Other&start=39033&end=39425&weekly=1 (Open in New Window)
Xbox only sold 9,181,515. They had a head start on the PS3. Still outsold by 2 million units is substantial...
Purchase of a PS3 automatically gets one a Blu-ray player. The question is whether or not the owner will watch (through buying or renting) Blu-ray movies on it. There's really no way to know, despite some industry people making asses of themselves by using the 20% number.
Purchase of an Xbox 360 only gets one a game console: only the sales of the add-on HD DVD externals can be used to bring the Xbox 360 into the mix. And right now the add-on sales are around 175,000 units.
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So true. To use PS3 as a model to show how Blue ray is beating up HD DVD is silly considering the fact that the vast majority of households who buy a PS3 are doing so for its primary purpose: VIDEO GAMES!
How about you show us some marketing research that shows the sales of blue ray vs. HD DVD and leave the PS3 out of the equation.
Or... if the PS3 is the only way blue ray sales look good when compared to HD DVD... play fair and include Xbox 360 sales in the figures. After all the Xbox 360 can play HD DVD with the same competency that the PS3 plays blue ray...
How about you show us some marketing research that shows the sales of blue ray vs. HD DVD and leave the PS3 out of the equation.All you have to do is look at the pro-HD DVD sites to get your information. When players sold is the criteria, these sites eliminate the PS3 from the totals. When attach rate is the criteria, they include the PS3. It's heads-I-win, tails-you-lose when these sites comment on the PS3.
"After all the Xbox 360 can play HD DVD with the same competency that the PS3 plays blue ray..."
See my response below:
because you can't quantify what percentage of PS3s are being used to play Blu-ray movies. The attach rates for Standalone players are probably higher than for PS3s but that's just a guestimate/reasonable supposition.
Really, the only thing you can point to is Software sales. Warner's has alluded that Standalone player quantities are important but it would be hard to ignore software sales as well. I wonder if there isn't a big difference in HD DVD attach rates for $98 Toshiba A2s being used as upconverting DVD players and the more expensive HD DVD players ?
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Don't forget about rentals. Blockbuster is Blu-ray exclusive.
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The PS3 is making a huge impact. Even if only a small fraction of them are used for Blu-ray movies, it's still a significant number compared to the HD DVD standalone players. I came close to buying one myself, but not to play games.
The proof is in the Software sales. Blu-ray won last week 74:26, This week is HD DVD's last, best chance to win the weekly software sales rankings to avoid a 52:0 shutout in HD media software sales (Re: Bourne Ultimatum).
Warner does not care about how you play them, as long as you buy them.
HD DVD keep on losing market share in movies. USA was the last hope in the world, and with 74 versus 26 last week, that hope is gone. Toshiba knows this better than many posters here. So it is now a question of how Toshiba can stop HD DVD production, while saving face, a very important tradition in Japan.
The last official numbers (week ending 12/2) were 58:42. Try to keep up. That's quite a jump up from 74:26 the week before. Perhaps its the A2/A3 sales. If you look at the titles selling, many have been around for a while, implying that new customers are buying movies.
enjoy,
Jack
I had 74:26 incorrect; that was the number 2/3/4 weeks ago (I forget). Week ending 12/9/07 was 76:24 with POTC3 and Superbad (Blu-ray) vs. BattleStar Galactica (HD DVD) (hardly fair).
This week will be more interesting. Bourne Ultimatum should be big for HD DVD, Legend of Zorro, Lost for Blu-ray. And Harry Potter on both formats (HD DVD got a break; some of the Blu-ray box sets had both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs in them (!) - big whoops for Warners).
Numbers keep fluctuating based on popularity of new releases, Blu-ray is staying ahead but the recent weeks have suggested to me HD DVD has picked it up a bit (except for last week).
60% Blu, 40% HD.
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But, since only the studios know the real numbers, its probably the best we have.
Jack
... compared to BB, CC, et al. Last time I checked, the cheapest HD DVD player ($298) was only $90 less than the Sony player; both well above the pricepoints of your typical Wallyworld riffraff. HD media was also consistently in the $30 price range behind locked cabinets.
You may be right. OTOH, I saw a Walmart ad for The Borne Ultimatum HD DVD last Monday. I was surprised. I have no idea what they charged for it.
I don't know how much high def they sell there, but a few months ago, it was basically none. Its possible people will get players when they get cheapo HDTVs. I do think the HD business is starting to pick up there.
Jack
I do keep up, the numbers do go up and down, but look out for
Pirates, they stole last week:-) 160,000 is a new high on Blu Ray.
- http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Disney/Disc_Sales/Report:_Pirates_Blu-ray_Sales_Top_160k_Units/1260 (Open in New Window)
They said they *moved* (as in shipped) 160,000, whereas they said spiderman3 *sold* 130,000 in 6 days. Gotta love the BDA and their semantics.
I opted not to buy either BTW.
Jack
have gone up significantly, though it could have been how successful the movies well.
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