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Sign the HD-DVD petition!

There's a grass roots movement to finally Deep Six Blu-Ray and encourage studios to see the light and move over the HD-DVD.

You can find the petition here:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/HD_DVD_Studio_Support

There are also some interesting stats here:
http://www.thedvdwars.com/index.cfm

The stats are built from Amazon.com sales data. With the exception of the #1 Blu-Ray title (which is ranked below the top 3 HD-DVD titles), all HD-DVD titles in the top ten outrank the #2 Blu-Ray disc. I saw a separate statistic that said that HD-DVD was outselling Blu-Ray between 8-to-1 and 10-to-1. The studios aren't stupid, and can only be expected to go where the customers are, so I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing more major studios jump ship (e.g. Fox, Disney)

There was a post on Engadget talking about how Sony is planning to release a PS4 in 2010, which is a complete u-turn from their original statement about how the PS3 was so far ahead of its time, it would be around for 10 years. It will be interesting to see whether PS4 will even support Blu-Ray if that format loses its studio backing.

This page is interesting too:
http://www.gamesystemwars.com/index.cfm

The top 6 Xbox 360 accessories outsell the #1 Wii accessories, and even the #10 Wii accessory (a Spongebob game of all things) outsells the #1 PS3 accessory.

Published Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:54:00 GMT by xmlguy
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dukemeiser said:

Hmm, maybe because the 360 has been out for a year and the Wii was only released 16 days ago?

If anything the studios will release both formats, and there is no way in hell they will abandon Blu-ray now that Sony has finally come to the plate with the PS3 (which by the way was only 19 days ago).  Sounds to me like you're just getting worried now that the PS3 is out.  In three months we'll just see how many Blu-ray players have been sold compared to HD-DVD players.

December 5, 2006 6:20 PM
 

xmlguy said:

Hehe ... yeah, maybe I'm worried that PS3 will be a success despite its limitations and Sony's anti-the-world behavior (root kits, exploding batteries, no PS3 in Europe until next year, no rumble on the PS3 controller etc.)

Still, I went to Best Buy this evening to see if I could get either Miami Vice or Ant Bully on HD-DVD, and both had sold out, but they still had lots of DVDs of both movies. Of course, they probably ordered far fewer HD-DVDs, but still.

The guy in the store also said that apparently they don't seem to re-stock the HD-DVDs as quickly as DVDs. Not quite sure how to read that - it almost sounds like they're not producing them fast enough, but that is as likely to be because they are producing for the long term, not the initial release spike.

December 5, 2006 9:33 PM
 

dukemeiser said:

Better update with a new post from here http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2006/12/14/wiimote-is-americas-best-selling-game-accessory/

"NPD numbers are out for accessories in November, and big surprise -- Wii wins. Is there anything we're not winning these days? More than half of all console buyers picked up an extra controller; full sales numbers for the Wii weigh in at 476,000 for last month, and 270,000 Wiimotes were sold. Only 153,000 nunchuks sold, however. Looks like Wii Sports is multiplayer king for now (but what about the boxing?)

Rolling in at second is the Xbox 360 controller, with 251,000, and the PS3's vaunted Sixaxis controller slides in near the bottom with only 98,000 controllers moving off the shelves. More people bought PS2 controllers than PS3."

Obviously this site is biased but the numbers should be right.

December 14, 2006 4:38 PM
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