You can’t argue with numbers. Since Warner’s announcement that it would solely back Blu-ray, HD DVD player sales have sunk.
According to research firm NPD, approximately 21,770 Blu-ray players were sold during the week ending January 12. HD DVD sold just 1,758. This is huge drop; at least the week before, HD DVD was in the same neighborhood, with less than a 1,000-player gap between the two technologies.
According to The Digital Bits, the data does not include Sony PS3 or Xbox HD DVD sales.
It will be interesting to see how the numbers jump (or not) with Toshiba’s new pricing campaign, as well as retailers pushing movies for both formats.
If you like the games available for a Wii, then, by all means, buy a Wii. The Playstation 3 is a different animal entirely, intended for creating complex worlds that can only be implemented by a powerful parallel processor, and that, incidentally, is why it runs so hot. As far as the HD DVD is concerned, I’m afraid the horse has already left the barn on that one.
As a consumers, I would rather go with HD DVD.
From my past experience and history of business record, Sony Blu Ray, Games or anything from Sony is never a good choice. Sony had done so many unbelievable and terrible things to its customers.
Most important of all Sony HD Players are physically hot, noisy, and need a fan to keep it cool.
BTW, Blue Ray is too expensive. Wii is much better.
I decided to check on sales figures including PS3 and the X-box HD-DVD add on to see how they may be effecting disk sales.
Total combined Blu-ray player sales: 2.7 million
Total combined HD-DVD player sales: 750,000
References:
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/1208
http://www.swivel.com/data_sets/show/1006126
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Industry_Trends/BDA:_2.7_million_Blu-ray_Players_Sold/1228
What is funny is this market info is for the US only. In other countries, HD-DVD is taking an even worse thrashing.
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Toshiba is maintaining some sales by slashing prices but at a cost.
“Toshiba, whose products range from washing machines to nuclear power plants, is also fighting losses in its HD DVD player business, he (Executive Vice President Fumio Muraoka) said, without detailing the size of the loss.” Reuters Jan 29, 2008