Samsung Electronics announced over the weekend that the company plans to begin hardware support for HD-DVD. Samsung has previously been an exclusive supporter of the Blu-ray format of next-generation DVD. Despite Blu-ray's recent months of sales superiority in the USA over the rival HD-DVD format, Samsung aims to combat consumer confusion over the battling formats by offering a hardware solution that will play both. Currently, LG's BH1000 Super Multi Blu is the only dual-format hardware on the market.
Samsung is also not ruling out single format HD-DVD drives, and may begin marketing such a solution "whenever consumers demand it." As quoted by Reuters, Craig Kornblau, a longtime HD-DVD supporter and president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, greeted the news by stating, "[Samsung's announcement] is an acknowledgement of the tremendous value that HD-DVD brings to the early adopter of high-definition-packaged media."
Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …
The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.
Sorry but i couldn't care less, Deliver us Mars was as woke game as they come, climate change disaster, all female cast plus only a comic relief indian guy (it takes only 5 minutes into the game for the main female character to say how smart she is compared to the guy), evil white guys, ugly females, then add generic gameplay and puzzles (how many times do you have to cut things with a laser for gods sake), you can't change anything in how the events develop so 0 agency in the story, sub par graphics even while using UE4. So well, go woke go broke, that's how it works.
That stinks but with a 68 average critic rating on their games probably made it difficult for people to invest considering there is a bloat of games getting made these days.
Mat Piscatella of analyst firm Circana has revealed that the PS5 was the market leader in North America for both unit and dollar sales during not only March 2024, but the first quarter of the year as a whole.
Writing on Twitter, Piscatella revealed that spending for video game hardware in February 2024 dropped 32% in comparison to the same period last year, totalling $391 million. In addition, spending for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch each fell a minimum of 30% year-on-year.
But PS5 and Switch still outsells XBOX embarrassingly even with overall consoles sales decline.
Najam from eXputer: "The norm of $60 AAA games is no more as developers now charge more for their games. Here's why this might not be a bad thing for gamers."
*Elden Ring type games, yeah sure. (scoring 8+)
(AAA/quadruple A) slop can shove it up their discounted ass
In recent yrs my purchasing In Indies has increased and its decreased for major IP's because I cba with the lack of innovative gameplay.
Focusing on the topic, why not mention Take-Two CEO getting his pay increased while axing 500 staff? I'm getting annoyed that those practices get ignored by the "gaming" media because ya don't want to burn potential bridges but seriously, gtfo.
It's a bad thing for gamers and for in the chair game devs. We just heard of massive layoffs across the industry.
I'd pay more if I read articles about how they were hiring. I'd pay more if I read articles about how the people who made the game scored record setting pay raises and CEOs were no longer given 1 year bonuses that could sustain a small studio for 10 years.
But that's not what happened.
Yeah there's only so much people are willing to pay for entertainment. Especially in the form of games at the same time that there are free to play games and cheaper in the titles that compete with triple A. You're not going to be able to keep increasing pricing and get the same amount of sales. I already don't buy games at the new price or even at $60. I wait for $40 or less. And I don't believe I'm alone in that department. If you don't have any other expenses you can probably continue to afford buying games at the top price but many people eventually have other things that take priority and you're just not going to spend it that much money on a video game.
Heck if I have to play one game for the rest of my life I'd probably end up playing Warframe or Counter-Strike. These are all either free games or were paid games and now are free.
The AAA industry is a threat to the gaming industry. They're trying to continue to ride the way and keep increasing prices. They're trying to get all of the money as long as they're able to.
It's bad. People just want good games at decent prices. Not everything has to be super realistic with 200 voice actors. Look at Palworld.
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Very interesting, HD DVD top 10, 100, 1000 and 10000 since the weekend, It's funny how things sway so quickly. Format war over? I think not!
http://www.eproductwars.com...
I'm not talking about hd-blu discs. I'll only buy discs that have dvd on one side and hd or blu on the other. I have dvd players in my car on my laptops and just about everywhere else. I have one hd-dvd player. I am in no hurry to replace those and watching hd movies on a small screen is pointless, so I don't see dvd ever going away. The majority of hd-dvd movies I am getting now have dvd on one side and hd on the other. I know blu-ray can does this as well, but are they?
this is bad news for BLU-Ray
the longer HD DVD stays alive as we can see by this movoe
the more support it will get
HD-DVD buyers seem to have started the celebration of their 1st aniversary of existence by buying every amazon HD-DVD they can muster the troops to buy.HD-DVD will have been in the lead for 1 day in all categories.In order to be consistently equal to BD sales HDDVD would have to do half of what they did sales wise on April 15th every day for the next 3 months in a row.I really feel sorry for them ,in another day HDDVD WILL be back to where they were April 14th
http://www.avsforum.com/avs...
Another proof that hddvd is dead: http://www.dvdempire.com/Co...
And check amazon to see how hddvd is falling again after the anniversary celebration.
Samsung going hybrid is very good news for bluray since it has more support, more movies are coming and more bluray sales,GREAT NEWS FOR BLURAY
You can see the spike I told you on april 15 for the anniversary of hddvd ( http://www.avsforum.com/avs...
and you can see how its falling again: http://www.eproductwars.com...
Bluray is ouselling hddvd,and the ps3 is the hddvd killer,check Nielsen numbers if you want proof,bluray is outselling hddvd since december
and in europe hddvd is literally dead: http://www.eproductwars.com...
http://www.eproductwars.com...
5.1 Phyba Optikz youre talking about something else,we are talking about MOVIES SALES,not players sale,MOVIES STUDIOS dont make money on players but on MOVIES they sale and they are the one that will be the decisive factor in this war,RIGHT NOW bluray(movies sale is outselling hddvd since december)Check my links for proof,it seems you are confusing players and movies sales,more support for bluray,more movies for bluray ,you are very funny you don't even know what youre talking about