The film industry trade journal The Hollywood Reporter reports from the gala launch party for Blu-ray editions of "Cars" and "Ratatouille." At the party, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment worldwide president and Blu-ray proponent Bob Chapek blasted the rival HD DVD camp with fierce rhetoric; Fox Home Entertainment president Mike Dunn chastised Paramount and blasted Microsoft with harsh statements; and Warner High-Definition Media VP Dan Silverberg admitted "one thing that may be changing is our strategy," and that a change could come as early as the end of the fourth quarter.
Most notably, The Hollywood Reporter reveals how Warner will decide if they will go with Blu-ray or HD DVD:
"A Warner source said the studio is watching what happens now that Wal-Mart and other big retailers are selling entry-level Toshiba HD DVD players for less than $200, about half what the cheapest Blu-ray player costs. If there is a significant spike in HD DVD software sales, the studio may cast its lot with that format, whereas if there is no real impact, Warner may go Blu-ray only."
Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …
The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ 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.
"The Sony-developed format received another boost during the Blu-ray Festival when the Home Theater Specialists of America, a national buying consortium of 62 dealers and 800 installers with combined annual revenue of more than a half-billion dollars, officially endorsed Blu-ray Disc as its next-generation format of choice."
How much is the cheapest HD-DVD player right now, $170-$200 dollars right? so if this doesnt sell, then we can officially say that HD-DVD is in the red, just to give you guys a good idea on how the Toshiba HD-A2 is selling (the entry level HD-DVD player which is currently at about $200 at amazon) its currently ranked 27 in electronics on amazon, and is currently number 1 in standalone HD-DVD players (xbox 360 is ranked number one, but it doesnt include HD-DVD addon, which is ranked 4th) blu-ray standalone players are ranked 429 and above, but if you include the PS3 in the picture(which has BD player Built in), Blu-ray is selling like crazy because of the PS3, 80gb is ranked 1 in BLu-ray.
This is the Reason why BD Movies are selling more than HD-DVD all the time.
HD-DVD has been a dying format since the release of the PS3. People who say that the PS3 isnt doing damage to HD-DVD because its a video game system or that no one uses the system to play movies with it are wrong. because why is blu-ray moving so many software sales if the stand alone players arent selling? or how did Blu-ray turned it around in January when HD-DVD was leading with cheaper stand alone players at the time(BD stand alone players were at $1000 dollars at the time)? Answer, The PS3. PS3 being a gaming system and a Blu-ray Disc player at $600 dollars at launch day was a big deal for people who wanted to watch movies in HD, it was $400 dollars cheaper than a standalone Blu-Ray disc player at the time and does more than a standalone Blu-ray Disc player. the PS3 being the cheapest BD player since launch encouraged people to buy one Look at any statistic about the format war, it will tell you the same thing.
This is the reason why Blu-ray movies sell more than HD-DVD, which concerns the Movie Studios alot becuase they are trying to make money off of software. This is why exclusive movie studios like Disney and Fox arent jumping ship. their sales targets exceed the number of movies sold, sure they can sell more by going multi, but for what, to have a never ending format war?
HD-DVD would have been destroying blu-ray if the 360 launched with a HD-DVD player built in, but it didnt happen, and it will never happen. Even if Microsoft adds a HD-DVD player built in to the 360, it will be too late. The xbox 360 elite showed Microsofts commitment to HD-DVD. BTW here are the sites I took for the statistics I showed in this post.
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Note: eproductwars.com takes statistics based on amazon sales charts, these charts gives you an Idea on how products are selling on Amazon and how they are selling in other stores based on Demand.
BTW, sorry for the long post and R.I.P. HD-DVD 2006-2007.
MEH..I will say it again
RED IS DEAD....I DO BLU..
so can those cheap HD-DVD player even manage the 51GB..???..lol
if VCRs and DVD players can live together why can't HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
after november and blu ray still outsells HD DVD.....we can say good bye to it..
I think i am going to contribute by getting both spiderman and POTC trilogy then...first , i want those...second, i want it to come to an end