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Originally Posted by Ruined
...Also, the other highest selling titles were Fox and Disney blockbusters which were exclusive to BD; therefore this is not a good benchmark of how well the format is doing vs HD DVD because it is comparing apples to oranges. If you look at actual titles that debuted on BOTH formats, such as Ocean's Thirteen, the numbers were much closer. Basically you had the new Die Hard going up against a $160 Star Trek TV boxset - of course Die Hard would sell better for that week.
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WHAT!?!...I can almost understand why you'd say that comparing only non-format-exclusive tiles would be a better benchmark of sales numbers, but part of the sales discrepancies in whole format war is the exclusivity factor. To deny that would be short sighted. Sales are better for Blu-Ray due to exclusive titles. In the end, sales are sales are sales...the bottom line is units sold and so far Blu is moving more units. One might question their tactics with all the BOGO's and "freebies" (although HDDVD has also been pretty good about the freebies, especially at Wal-Mart) but they're accomplishing what they've set out to do which is to, at the very least, give the perception that they are indeed leading the format war in disc sales.
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Originally Posted by Daze
Oh. I just saw the numbers on that engadgetHD site. How many weeks has HD-DVD been ahead?
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And to answer this specific question, HDDVD has not outsold Blu-Ray all year (according to the Neilsen numbers).