Citing strong sales of 'No Country for Old Men,', the Blu-ray camp has now topped 9 million discs sold since its launch.
BD sales for the first 11 weeks of 2008 is about 3 million units, adding to the 6 million that the format had sold since its inception in Q2 2006. The sales are clearly stronger than past years and analysts predict 16 million sold total for 2008.
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even Phil Harrison stated this! and it was sony's reason for all the job losses, as sony were moving towards online distribution away from physical media.
Originally posted by link: Pardon the hyperbole, but with senior Sony executives speculating that the PS4 (yes, you read that right) may not use a disc format as the company is at the cusp of rolling out future proof technology, it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the proprietary disc format's staying power.
Phil Harrison told Wired that he would be "amazed if the PS4 has a physical disk drive." In fairness, Harrison was talking about the emergence of electronic distribution (something Sony's mastermind Ken Kutaragi has championed previously), but that doesn't change the back-handed slap to the Blu-ray format.
Originally posted by link: SCE's Fukuoka said the potential job cuts are not the result of the PS3's slow start, but a response to changes in the game industry, including a shift to online distribution of software from packaged software sales.
And if they do that Sony will Dig there own grave. i have unlimited internet connecion,No Caps. Moreover Most people do no have this option available to them. another reason is that not everybody has a T1 or Fiber Connection running to there door.
Well lets see once there is no competition how much the discs are and how well they sell then compared to DVDs.
There was already a price rise on stand alone players after HD-DVD threw in the towel.
