PS3 sales surge 178 percent in the UK
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plus a console with built in Blu-ray player, which is really helps i suppose to some extent, lol, which is what Sony wanted, not that MS is bothered as they'll just implement whatever in their next machine no doubt
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no, it reeks of people trying to cause an argument mentioning fanboys all the time
Ironic statement of the week?
Ijust never understood some people's obsession to boast about sales.
Boasting?
Mate when it comes to PS3 Sales, Sony certainly doesn't have anything to Boast about, its just makes a change to see them doing well for once.
Why is it anytime anyone posts anything positive about the PS3 on here it gets slammed into the ground?
I'm not Boasting, and i'm certainly not a fanboy, ask anyone who knows me on here.
As of September, in the USA 53% of standalone players was HD-DVD, 44% Blu-Ray (NPD figures). I don't know about rest of world sales. So you can see it is close just based on stand alone players.
However, you cannot discount either PS3 or the 360 HD-DVD drive as they have both helped their respective formats.
HD-DVD has some good exclusives, but so does Blu-Ray and the preference will vary wildy by person. I am sure for every highly rated Blu-Ray exclusive their will be an equally highly rated HD-DVD exclusive.
The big guns are still to come though. Mr Spielberg has no films out on either format. In fact he made the HD-DVD folk apologise when they mistakenly said some of his movies were coming out on his format.
If Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars all went to either camp it could be game over for the other.
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Sadly the official figures in the USA are: HD DVD 310 vs Blu-ray 304 Blu-ray did have more releases than HD-DVD but once Paramount switched to being HD-DVD exclusive, they stopped producing the 32 films they had previously released on Blu-ray (even though you can prob still but the old stock). so Blu-ray was ahead, but now HD-DVD has taken the lead in number of titles (technically).
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because more sales is a good thing. how on earth is anything anybody has said even remotely fanboy-like?
like i said, if people didnt keep calling eachother fanboys, half of these arguement would never start in the first place.
Well that would be over 120 million users so wouldnt be to bad lol.
Well I apologise then, I was just mislead by some of the posts you have made.
most ps2 fans are yet to decide. ps2 sold 110 mill, 360 has sold 12 mill, ps3 5 mill (approximations, can't be bothered to check the figures). So it is arguable that most people from last gen have yet to decide.
Even if you include Nintendo Wii, I would say more than 60% of last gen owners haven't bought a new gen machine yet. There is still time for Sony, but they do need to buck up their ideas a bit (Home has to deliver, Firmware 2.0 has to deliver, games have to deliver etc).
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Say it was selling 100 a week, and got a 178% increase, you would say it's good for PS3 and Sony?
I don't think we would be having this conversation if PS3 was selling 100 units a week
But I know what you mean, you have taken an extreme interpretation of the statistics to suit your purposes.
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Actually I lied, If the Neo-Geo AES was still around i'd be making fanboy comments about that, so I guess you could call me a Neo-Geo Fanboy
The time HD-DVD gets down to sub £100 then there will be a Blu ray player to match it. Being a 360 fanboy is quite a childish reason for you to want Blu-Ray to fail.