HD-DVD Add-On Ships Over 155,000 Units
Back in April, sales of HD-DVD Players topped 100,000. That’s just stand-alone HD-DVD Players, and doesn’t include the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on, or HD-DVD drives for PCs. All the same, 100,000 units if fairly impressive for a format that has to face stiff opposition from Blu-Ray in the few homes that actually have HD Support.
In a recent article from cNet UK, Microsoft has stated that they have shipped over 155,000 units to the United States. Taken straight from the cNet article:
There were also some surprising stats given. Microsoft was reluctant to tell us how many HD DVD drives for the Xbox 360 it has sold worldwide, but it did tell us that in the US it has shifted 155,000 of them. This is apparently the biggest-selling accessory Microsoft has ever sold for the 360…
Now, I’m not sure that it’s the biggest accessory the Xbox 360 has ever had — I would imagine spare controllers, or those damned faceplates would rank pretty high. But all the same, it seems that HD-DVD isn’t doing as badly as some would make out. True, Blu-Ray hardware sales are higher (due in part to the PS3), but it seems that HD-DVD owners are buying more HD-DVD movies:
…What was more surprising is that people buying HD DVD players, on the whole, bought more discs than people buying Blu-ray players. So even though Blu-ray has sold more hardware, including the PlayStation 3, the owners are only buying an average of one disc to play on them. On HD DVD this number is an average of four discs.
Hmm. Guess people are seeing the light that is HD.
[c|net UK]
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