There are sure to be different reasons why HD DVD failed to win the HD movie spat with Blu-ray but there’s no doubting that what the biggest was: 10.5 million PS3 consoles.
Recent sales figures show that 10.5 million PS3s with in-built Blu-ray drives have now sold worldwide. That does not include sales of dedicated Blu-ray players. When you compare that to estimated sales of just 1 million HD DVD players, you can see the scale of the problem the format faced. PS3 sales in the UK alone recently topped 1 million.
With the PS3 predicted to outsell the Xbox 360 in 2008 – no doubt aided somewhat by the end of HD DVD – it seems we’ll all be Blu, on one platform or another, by Christmas.
Source: Gizmodo