Monday, June 25, 2007
Xbox 360 HD-DVD Drive Outsells Standalone Players
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "NEWS" @ 01:00 PM
The Xbox 360 add-on has sold over 155,000 units, while according to a study in April, only 100,000 standalone players had been sold. I’m sure that many of you will be quick to note that there have still been more than 255,000 Blu-ray players sold. The only difference is that every HD-DVD player was bought with the sole purpose of watching movies, that is not the case for all Blu-ray players, most notably the PS3...for every HD-DVD player, 4 compatible movie titles were purchased, while ratio of Blu-ray players to movies is 1:1."
The numbers don't quite tell the whole story in the HD format wars. While Blu-Ray players have outsold HD-DVD players, a substantial number of those Blu-Ray players were PS3s, and most of those PS3s were not purchased with the intent of watching HD movies on them. The same can't be said of the 360's add-on drive however. If you buy one of those, you're watching movies on it, and nothing else. The more telling figure is the 4:1 ratio of movies to players on HD-DVD, which blows the Blu-Ray camp out of the water. It's going to take some time for the market to settle down, but the long-term predictions still point to HD-DVD eeking out the win.
The numbers don't quite tell the whole story in the HD format wars. While Blu-Ray players have outsold HD-DVD players, a substantial number of those Blu-Ray players were PS3s, and most of those PS3s were not purchased with the intent of watching HD movies on them. The same can't be said of the 360's add-on drive however. If you buy one of those, you're watching movies on it, and nothing else. The more telling figure is the 4:1 ratio of movies to players on HD-DVD, which blows the Blu-Ray camp out of the water. It's going to take some time for the market to settle down, but the long-term predictions still point to HD-DVD eeking out the win.
