PS3 vs 360

[Bond]

Originally Posted by Perfect Stu

You're way wrong. TO DATE? DVD was an incredibly successful format that has been mainstream for 10+ years, hasn't it? I'd guess Blu Ray sales might be around 1% of DVD sales to date.

I quote directly from Sony CEO, Ryoji Chubachi:

"DVD and BD currently account for about 80 percent and 20 percent, respectively, of global demand for movie discs, Chubachi indicated. The new BD devices to be offered by Sony include models integrating an HD LCD TV with BD recording functionality, Chubachi pointed out."

Source: Cnet News

Edit: I think you may have misinterpreted what I meant by "to date."

If you look at the number of early adopters of the Blu Ray format, the percentage of people who have used their PS3's for Blu Rays, the number of million PS3's that will be in homes in 5 years, the consistent price drops of Blu Ray players, the number of more HDTVs that will be in homes in 5 years and want to make some predictions, I think you may look at it from the same angle I am. People were hesistant to say HD-DVD was dead until they literally stopped making them. Why wait that long? I'm not saying Blu Ray will reach DVD success, but at the same time it won't be discontinued anytime soon.

While what you're saying might eventually become true, it's currently not. Just because Blu-ray beat out HD-DVD does not mean it will become the dominant format. And as I said before, critical mass has certainly not been met. Speculatively, I see your point, but I was going more from current numbers.

[Perfect Stu]

Well I wasn't really talking current numbers. I was guarunteeing a significant market impact over the next handful of years. And while guarunteeing might be a strong word because I don't have a crystal ball, I like going out on a limb.

And I apologize for myself as well as gekko...it seems as though we mistook 'to date' as 'to date'.

[Yoda9864]

Originally Posted by Bond

I quote directly from Sony CEO, Ryoji Chubachi:

"DVD and BD currently account for about 80 percent and 20 percent, respectively, of global demand for movie discs, Chubachi indicated. The new BD devices to be offered by Sony include models integrating an HD LCD TV with BD recording functionality, Chubachi pointed out."

Quoting Sony personnel on Blu Ray demand? Call me crazy, but that doesn't seem the smartest.