If you look at the sales figures showing how many standalone blu-ray players that have been sold the last couple of months, you can see that the sales figures have dropped almost 40% between January and March - and that is quite a surprise since at least I expected to see a dramatic increase when the format war ended. It will be really interesting to see how long it will take until standalone blu-ray players reach the price level of around $100…
Blu-ray hits bumps in the road to HD market dominance [arstechnica.com]
Tags: blu-ray
By Marco on May 7, 2008
This is not really suprising, since the Blu-Ray players hit quite a price jump after the end of the format war.
I’m not buying one, till the Blu-Ray titles are priced similar to DVDs.
By Mikael Svardh on May 7, 2008
And the PS3 got cheaper…looks like most of the blu-ray buyers went for a Playstation…
Sony sold 257 000 PS3s in March 2008 alone
By Deepak on May 7, 2008
Including the sales of PS3 to the numbers of Blu-ray might give a more accurate representation.
Many would buy the PS3 as a Blu-ray player, not just because it also plays games, but because it is a better player than most stand alone devices. Firmware upgradable, Network enabled…
Not many devices costing much more than the PS3 can boast of all the features available on this machine!
By Mikael Svardh on May 7, 2008
Deepak, I agree…this is not a proper way of showing the actual sales of blu-ray players, since a lot of people buy the PS3 as a standalone player.