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Spider-man 3 Sells 130K in Six Days on Blu-ray

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has revealed that the Blu-ray release of 'Spider-man 3' sold 130,000 copies the first six days at retail, 15,000 more copies than the Transformers HD DVD was reported to have sold its first week on store shelves. Having shipped 400,000 copies to retailers, this represents a 30% sell-off for the title.

David Bishop, President of Sony commented, "We are well-placed for the holidays. We got in before the key shopping season, and now you'll have more people getting into the market, as new players are launching from Sony, Sharp, Panasonic [among others]. It's our hope that they walk out with a player and Spider-Man 3."

The 130,000 sold does not include copies given away as part of a Sony promotion to provide the title to those who purchase a 40GB PS3. Sony expects demand to increase throughout the holiday season, with 'Spider-man 3' to remain a top seller.

drtysouf 216015d ago

trilogy on blu-ray next month!

shmee6015d ago

Rattatouille is currently at no 3 on Amazon Charts

www.eproductwars.com/dvd

Future looks Blu. Future is SONY, PS3 and BLU_RAY

jiggyjay6015d ago (Edited 6015d ago )

Considering there are over 6 million BD players and probably 3million in N. America 130,000 is not great.. Comparing the two Blu Ray player including the PS3 outnumber hd dvd player 6:1.. With that in mind Spider Man 3 was only able to sell 15,000 more than transformers when HD DVD has so much less players out.. Again this proves what the backers of HD DVD has been saying all along.. People would rather buy a stand alone player than having a gaming machine like the PS3 as their main DVD players.. So probably more than half of the PS3 owners out there don't use it for Blu Ray ...

Now if Parmount waited to release Transformers after the $99 A2 sales i'm pretty sure there would no way Spider Man would've sold more.. But hey we have Shrek 3 coming out pretty soon on HD DVD only.. Let's see how many of those sell with 100,000+ more HD DVD owners including myself since Transformers came out!

TANOD6015d ago

so 250 odd isnt bad . As shmee said and we know HD DVD int a factor in those regions. so 115 k is the total sales for HD DVD transformers on its launch week. compared to 250k on its launch week.

so a sales comparison is not valid.

I agree with u SHMEEE BHAI ratatouille might be a much bigger hit than Spiderman 3 and so could be cars . we wait for the numbers though

ravinash6015d ago

plus not everyone who owns a PS3 or Blueray play wants this film.
I watch it was it was in the theatre and didn't like it at all.
But I am glad its doing well as i want BlueRay to win.

Snukadaman6014d ago

why dont we mark as spam people...this is blatant disregard for the rules.....

Gizmo_Logix6014d ago (Edited 6014d ago )

LOL! :)

Funny watching jiggyjay get beat down like the little fanboy he is! Ha ha ha!

Ratatouille, Cars and Die Hard Collection is also coming next week!

eagle216014d ago

rotten tomato score: 97 metacritic: 96

jiggyjay6014d ago

Yeah I got owned!

Any of you guys have links that claim that Spiderman sold 100k in japan and europe.. There's no way you guys can spin this.. The fact that Blu Ray only outsells HD DVD in software 2:1 when Blu Ray players outnumber HD DVD players 6:1 is bad for Blu Ray! If All PS3 owners bought blu ray movies then this war would've ended already. Believe me if the Sony can match HD DVD price and if Blu Ray software was outselling HD DVD by at least 5:1 then this war would have been over already! But its a good thing that Blu Ray hasn't won yet because there would've been no way I would be able to buy a $99 HD DVD player and watch transformers in HD without having to spend $400 on a Blu Ray player! I believe that HD DVD will end up being the winner in this because of price alone! Just like the VHS vs Beta war one of the main factors for VHS winning (other than porn supporting it)was that VHS was cheaper than Beta even though beta was higher quality!

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Danja6015d ago

kk those are great figures..now lets see how good Cars and Ratatouille..does..!!..and POC...!!! BLU-RAY is looking great for the holidays..!!

shmee6015d ago

dont exceed that 130k by Spiderman 3.

hOWEVER EVERYTHING IS FINISHED FOR hd DVD

i EXPECT piRATES 3 TO SELL 300 000 ON ITS LAUNCH WEEKENED WORLDWIDE

spidey 3 i think sold over 250 000 ON A GLOBAL BASIS (eu,japan AND na)

ruibing6015d ago

So many awesome trilogies and releases. I didn't catch it in theaters but I'm getting the BD release. This is a good day for all Blu Ray owners.

uxo226014d ago

hmmm. Who does that, people use 5 day weeks and 7 day weeks. But I never hear of six days. Was it not winning after 5 days or 7 days. Just curious why the did the numbers after six days.

Jdash246015d ago

i was going to pick it up......til i saw the price tag ($40)........and i saw the trilogy was only $65 dollars.......but im going to wait a while and pick up the trilogy

THE_JUDGE6014d ago

I was going to the trilogy but I had some unforseen money issues so I plan on asking for it for Christmas, thats as good as mine. Go Blu!

chasegamez6015d ago (Edited 6015d ago )

TRANSFORMERS WAS A BETTER MOVIE THAN SPIDERMAN3
I WILL ADMIT 2 THAT

shmee6015d ago

tRNASFORMERS IS ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES EVER MADE. it HAS NOTHING,NO STORY EXCEPT SOME CRAZY TRON FIGHTS

spidey AND pirates 3 HAVE BOTH REACHED THE 900M SALES MARK. NO pramount MOVIE WOULD EVER ACHIEVE THAT MARK.

EXPECT rATATOUILLE , CARS AND PIRATES 3 TO BE EVEN BIGGER SELLING HITS

UNFORTUNATELY FOR HD DVD ---IT IS NON EXISTENT IN JAPAN AND EU

Baba19066015d ago

spider 3 sucked =( sorry i love ps3 and so on but transformers was much better

Daurelus176014d ago

there is not doubt that transformers was better.. spiderman 3 still a good movie but a complete let down of what i hoped it to be

solidt126015d ago

Sweet. I might pick it up.

Xi6015d ago

if you want to watch spider man, just go on youtube and type emo, at least it's less gay.

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