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Originally Posted by Ruined
Very much true. The only reason the BDA has been "ahead all year" is because they have strategically placed buy-one-get-one free sales (where even the free title counts as a "sale") and other software promotions on weeks when HD DVD would otherwise have been ahead in sales. In Q4 there have been more weeks where Sony has given away free movies with purchase of movies in store than weeks where movies were sold normally. Smoke and mirrors for sure, especially in the Q4 now that it is clear HD DVD has regained much of the ground it had lost earlier in the year as evidenced by much closer sales of multiplatform titles.
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Don't you get tired of typing this every time someone mentions that blu-ray killed hd dvd in the weekly sales numbers?