Sony lets its Blu-ray numbers slip show at CEDIA Expo 2007.
At the expo, Sony presented a series of slides and charts, including the one to the right (and bottom -- click to enlarge.) Sony intended to use the viewgraph to show off Blu-ray's sale superiority over HD DVD's. However, the viewgraph inadvertently reveals a trend that is particularly interesting. Pay attention to the viewgraph, and follow closely the blue and red lines. What do you see?
Sales for both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs have been on a declining trend since December -- just one month after PlayStation 3 launched. Both formats are trending downward -- with Blu-ray dropping more sharply than HD DVD.
Now, you can rationalize the decline as the standard post Christmas drop. But is it? The Christmas season is when consumers shop for electronics and big-ticket items, but movie purchases do not exactly fall into the "Christmas list item" category. A lot of people went out and bought PlayStation 3 and standalone HD players for Christmas. However, it seems that after the initial rush wore off, they lost interest in buying new movies for those players.
When you realize that additional Blu-ray players (or more appropriately, PlayStation 3) are continually being sold after Christmas, the dramatic drop in Blu-ray movie sales is even more troubling. As a new format is being adopted, it is supposed to see sales rising, not dropping.
As the viewgraph shows, Blu-ray (or HD DVD) is not winning the format war. Both formats are losing.
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"The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn’t finished.
This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for $7.5 billion, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Others across the Xbox organization have been told that more cuts are on the way.
Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said.
Game Pass has not seen the massive growth that Xbox boss Phil Spencer may have been hoping for."
"Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said"
So what you're saying is...you bought all these studios and you guys can't run them.
Jesus.
Reports are suggesting that Game Pass will be getting a price hike soon and that Call of Duty may not be added to the day one offering. I honestly have a hard time believing this but it does beg the question why exactly did GP fail? I think the answer is that it just didn't get the growth that it anticipated. Jim was right but I wish he wasn't because at the end of the day, its gamers, devs and other front-line workers who have to absorb the blow for Spencer and team's miscalculations.
For all the armchair executives who were calling for Sony to release its big-budget AAA games on PS+, the same exact thing would have happened at PlayStation. Game Pass has killed Xbox. Congrats.
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Sony fanboys calling out Xbox fanboys.
Blu-ray's still in the lead.
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Aren't you guys the "what's Blu-rays got to do with gaming?" lot? Irony and ignorance at it's finest.
I hope both formats die... but I will have more sastifaction when blu-ray go belly up.
games are coming anyway no mather what happens =D