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Sony's Stringer talks a Blu-ray streak - Hollywood Reporter Interview

Sonyy CEO Howard Stringer affirmed the company's support for and belief in Blu-ray Disc, saying in an exclusive e-mail interview Monday that the Sony-developed next-generation disc format has "the momentum and the scale" to ultimately triumph over rival HD DVD.

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Karebear6000d ago

Disney announces it backs Mickey Mouse over Mighty Mouse,
Florida decides after deliberation to back Oranges,
Detroit leaks preference for American built cars,
and Apple, in a shocking development, holds a press release that it thinks the Ipod is better than the Zune.
*sigh*

cuco336000d ago

They say HD DVD is dead... countless times...

then they say they aren't in competition with HD DVD...

then they say HD DVD is dead some more...

then they say a dual format world is bound to happen...

now they say they will triumph once again...

and then?

no and then.

The BDA needs to learn to STFU, as in yesterday.

kreetah6000d ago

The good news is the Blu-Ray winning streak just keeps on going in outselling HD-DVD media week after week after week. Makes it easy to keep track, weeks where HD-DVD outsold Blu-Ray in 2007 = ZERO (0).

Snukadaman6000d ago

we only get graphs and ratios...I want too see numbers like vgchartz...some ball park figures.

kreetah6000d ago

NDP doesn't release hard numbers (I'll like to see them too) but only the ratio of sales. Last week was 65% Blu-Ray vs 35% HD-DVD and that just happens to be the yearly avarages (weekly milage does vary).

cuco336000d ago

Want to know why Nielson's doesn't easily give out hard numbers? Simple. Because people will see how small the market really is.

We have EU's hardware sales for stand alones since inception until August. Spain sold a little over 300 HD DVD stand alones, followed by BD stand alones which sold almost 200. In the US it is far greater but catalog software titles on either format have yielded less than 5000 copies sold across the nation.

Blu-ray is beating HD DVD in software sales, according to Nielson's data which, accounts for a little over 60% of the entire market which is from the get go, Blu-ray biased (i.e. Best Buy & Target received incentives to promote Blu-ray). It is ONLY a snapshot and nothing more but from that we get a pretty good estimation on how HDM does in majority of the big retail chains. Then we have this question on Walmart since they DON'T report and it's clear they are starting to play ball in the HDM game. They are THE biggest retail chain that sells SD DVDs so the more they play the HDM game, the less reputable the Nielson's data becomes.

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actas1236000d ago

Well Blue Ray is beating HD DVD due to the 6 million blue ray players vs the around .5 million players (not sure) for HD DVD. Blue ray continuous to show its success, however, Sony CEO, Howard is a real dumbass. He doesn't know how to talk.. He should just keep his mouth closed and not talk to the media. I really don't know how sony hired that jackass. Sony needs an innovator like Steve Job or Bill gates not an idiot. I mean Sony is doing well despite his many flaws and stupid comments here and there. I am serious this guy is on some kind of a drug. ....

Snukadaman6000d ago

and also the numbers are mostly collected in NA...not japan or europe..so those are mainly guesses....like I said above there has only been ratios and percentages...give us hard numbers no matter how small.

CBaoth6000d ago

Thanks Actas123 for the joke of the day. Oh wait, you weren't really serious, were you? That's almost like an oxymoron.

deeznuts6000d ago

This "dumbass" as you say is doing a decent job of turning around Sony

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This Gigabyte GPU is now among the cheapest RTX 4090s on Amazon after a hefty deal

On Amazon, you can't get an RTX 4090 for less than this one from Gigabyte, which now offers great value after an eye-catching April deal.

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Mugen Souls Retro Review – Sexy Demon Space Adventure

Gary Green said: We have a juxtaposition of 2D and 3D visuals, flashy turn-based combat, quirky anime characters with cheeky dialogue with plenty of partial nudity; Yes, this is a Compile Heart JRPG. Whilst the engine is borrowed from Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Mugen Souls is more of a Disgaea spin-off. It’s not a strategy RPG as such, it merely sits within Disgaea’s ever-expanding universe (Multiverse? Netherverse? Your guess is as good as mine). You won’t find cameos though, since Mugen Souls is a franchise which aims to stand on its own two feet.

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Looking Back At 2008, An Unbelievably Incredible Year Of Video Game Releases

Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."

ChasterMies2h ago

Some of these low paid video game “news” writers weren’t born before 2007.

CrimsonWing6913h ago

I don’t think anything can compare to 2023

lucasnooker13h ago

1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.

It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!

KyRo13h ago(Edited 13h ago)

I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.

Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.

CrimsonWing6913h ago(Edited 13h ago)

Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.

Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:

- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2

I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.

Profchaos9h ago(Edited 9h ago)

Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.

I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.

I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.

But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.

Gameseeker_Frampt1h ago

Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.

2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.