HD DVD/Blu-ray Format War: Playstation 3 Makes Up 74% Of Blu-ray Sales

When the post-Black Friday numbers came out and it was reported that Blu-ray disc sales had reached 2.7 million units sold in North America we knew that a good chunk of those sales came from Playstation 3 purchases. What percentage of sales came from the PS3 was something we weren't sure about, but the folks over at DailyTech did a little digging and came up with this: Playstation 3 sales account for 74% of the 2.7 million Blu-ray players sold. The number of PS3's sold through Black Friday was about 2.3 million, meaning only 400000 standalone players were sold in North America in the first 11 months of 2007. HD DVD's reported sales number of 750000 HD DVD units sold post Black-Friday also includes contributions from the XBox 360. One big difference though is the fact that the 360's HD DVD functionality requires a separate add-on that pretty much ensures those buyer's use the 360 to watch HD DVD. On the other hand, we wonder how many PS3 users use the Blu-ray player on their consoles? We'll do some digging and see what we can find.

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Posted by Justin Davey at December 9, 2007 7:12 AM