TVPredictions.com:David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, says that Blu-ray player prices have finally hit the "sweet point" which should generate significant momentum for the high-def disc format.
Studies have indicated that consumers have been reluctant to buy Blu-ray players largely because of their relatively high prices. Until recently, an entry-level Blu-ray player was priced at $399, triple the amount of a standard-def DVD player.
However, retailers have slashed the price of some Blu-ray players to under $200 and early holiday sales reports indicate that the move has paid off. The high-def disc player has been dubbed one of the holiday's hottest items.
"As is evidenced by the sell-off of Blu-ray players over Black Friday weekend, I would say we hit the sweet spot regarding price," Bishop told Home Media."Some stores were sold out by 9:30 a.m. (on Black Friday). Clearly, it is a top gift item. There will be more price-point-oriented promotions throughout December and that momentum will continue."
Bishop said the recent Blu-ray release of Hancock sold nearly 300,000 units in the first six days thanks to the Black Friday sales. He added that a strong holiday season for Blu-ray players should trigger an equally strong January for Blu-ray movies.
"The positive in all this is the momentum we are getting from Blu-ray. It is continuing to grow and 200% to 300% year-over-year, and the ratio of Blu-ray and DVD sales continues to rise," he said. "That calls for optimism. For anyone who said that people would just go to digital and skip Blu-ray that has certainly been proven not to be true. Even if you took Blu-ray separately as a revenue stream, it is probably 20 times larger than digital revenue."
"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".
I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.
I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.
Has the rapid growth of Xbox made the ship too heavy? Following the closures of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Roundhouse, we explore what the future of Xbox could look like.
This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in
Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.
Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.
Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,
While on stage with Dina Bass at The Bloomberg Technology Summit the President of Xbox, Sarah Bond, was asked about the Xbox studio closures of Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios
Of course she did. She's part of the problem and will just tow the company line.
I always wondered why xbox had multiple leaders with similar titles like Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond, like, how many heads do you actually need?
Seems to me it would be more cost efficient to cut 2 of them instead of all those studios.
lets see how people spin this article.
Since you bots think of yourselves as smart and stated that Blu-ray is Doomed, lets see you guys spin this article.
Digital downloads and low quality no high bar having netflix Hd movies is the way to go... upgrading disc formats is STUPID.. well except for like.. floppy.. to cd.. to dvd.. but DVD is the perfect medium, and after DVD.. we shouldn't even need optical discs anymore, just keep manufacturing more dvds!!!!
uh,, (grasps at more straws) There is no point in having more space ona disc. Jst like theres no point in having a high capacity Mp3 player. Who needs 80+gigs when u can just keep using 128mb mp3 players .. and just keep deleting and refresh..
uhm..
I just plain hate the PS3.
fu*k netflix its only in the U.S so fu*k netflix i say. and not every one has fast internet and i only can download 60GB every month and when i go over it cost me $1.50 per GB. until there is faster internet and no download limit for the whole world there will never be just Digital downloads. so blu-ray wins.
As long as the public are buying stand alone Blu-Ray players and not that piece of Sh*t PS3 i'm happy so far.In this console war ps3 will remain 3rd place i know its sad and i feel your pain droids but Hey cheer up i know ps3 put up a good fight.As for Microsoft (XBOX360)the world is its oyster.