Media Wonk attended an industry dinner in Hollywood in early December where he ran into Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group president Kevin Tsujihara and home video president Ron Sanders.
According to Sanders, however, Warner's decision was driven by consumer behavior, more than an expectation of resolving the format war.
"It's hard for us to speculate about impact this will have on the format war. All we can do really is make the best decision for our business and the rest of it will really take care of itself, in time," he said. "One of the things you see in the NPD data for this fourth quarter was that even with a $100 [price] premium, Blu-ray set tops outsold HD set tops in December. Even with Toshiba having the lowest-cost player in the market, software sales remained 2 to 1 in favor of Blu-ray."
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Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
thats new right there. The reason why they out sold is because they have the most movies and arguably the best movies available in HD! Go Blu!!!
and this is before the over a million PS3's sold in that month.
December really has been one heck of a month for sony
I feel bad because yesterday i saw someone picking up a HD DVD player in Tesco, i wonder what there reaction would have been once they found out about Warner going blu
sony is really showing how 08 will be there year!
lol to hd-dvd
Toshiba screwed them self seriously.
ppl who thought 99 hd-dvd players will pull through are thinking way too one sided.
ITs good for consumers in the short term, but consumer electronic companys want to make money esp for new tech..
99 dollars for new tech means low profit margins... hence the reason why toshiba only produced the hardware.