"The latest sales numbers appear to indicate that Blu-ray has taken the lead over HD DVD in terms of title sales since inception. According to Nielsen VideoScan First Alert data, cited by Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray has racked up a slight lead in unit sales -- 100 units to every 98.71 units of HD DVD.
Up until the recent market stats released by Nielsen VideoScan, HD DVD held the lead in overall titles sold. Some attribute HD DVD's previous lead to the format's head start and less expensive players. Blu-ray Discs experienced a considerable surge in sales following the holiday season, eclipsing HD DVD sales numbers by two to three times...
The gaming industry has drifted away from offering full-fledged games to putting unfinished titles that are jam-packed with microtransactions on the market.
It's not the fault of the gaming industry. Gamers were told what was happening, were warned about where this would lead, did nothing, and now are acting like it's the fault of publishers that they kept buying these games and investing in MTX. If only those gamers at that time felt as strongly about these things as they do Helldivers 2.
This is what amazed me the most when playing hours upon hours of stellar Blade version 1.00.00 no bugs, no crashes, no sudden drops in frames, no screen tear, no falling from the world, just a complete package on a game under 50GB.
I think Korea will play a major role in gaming in the long run , because they're releasing banger after banger.
Still pretty common to find if you stay away from the AAA publishers, in the last 10yrs ive probably only bought like 3 games combined from EA/ACTIVISION/UBISOFT. Even now i still buy games that work right out the box perfectly fine. Just recently got like 6hrs into Alone in the Dark, and not a single sign of any of that bs, really enjoying my time with it.
And we as gamers have to accept our role in that. Constantly never being satisfied. Constantly demanding more while paying less. Constantly demanding better frame rates, better graphics, more modes and faster faster faster…. Then review bombing the product when a demand isn’t met. Meanwhile those same demands are making games more difficult, complex and more expensive to create than ever before, on shrinking timelines that burn out employees and make their lives miserable.
You wanna know why so many games get delayed? Cuz the original release dates weren’t realistic to begin with, but you can’t tell a gamer their game is further away than they want to hear. Some dev or game designer will be threatened physically. That builds even more pressure and rushing. We are officially squeezing water out of rocks and still complaining about that how hard you have to squeeze the rock be just waiting for rain. Most of the time we take it out on the developing studio, when it’s the publisher making the calls.
All you need to do is read the comments on most websites and social media to see how toxic, entitled and petty the gaming community at large is, and realize how that transforms into impossible expectations on the parts of game makers.
This is one battle that gamers have never won, hahaha. They were parading recently for their "win" against Sony. Where's the energy for this one, guys? LMAO!
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Microtransactions have gotten ridiculously overpriced in recent years, with titles now offering cosmetic skins worth more than some games.
There never was, the only time I paid for a microtransaction was on Blacklight Retribution (PS4) and it was because I enjoyed the game a lot so I felt the devs should get something for all that entertainment (€5 "membership")
I couldn’t believe what Blizzard charged for horse armor and cosmetics in Diablo 4…
I remember back in the day when a season pass was $15 and you got everything included in it. Now, I see them at $60 and you still don’t get everything.
As soon as gaming wasn't deemed nerdy anymore, and reached the casuals this happened. We're smart, but casuals play mobile games and other stuff, and don't really have anything to compare. They think gaming is supposed to be like this and pay for in game purchases.
"100 units to every 98.71 units of HD DVD."
So BluRay isn't winning as much as Sony wanted the public to believe?
A clear winner is still not there. Funny how Sony fanboys still always shout that HD-DVD is dead, when they're selling about the same amount of players.
With that included, those HD-DVD players sold are clearly sold for playing movies, while PS3's are mainly sold for playing games. At least, we may believe so.
The 'next gen' format is not choosen and maybe it won't even be choosen. The mass is still on DVD. Only 5% or so of all TV's are HDTV's. Which make 95% that have no use for HD video players.
We might see that the digital distribution will take off in a bigger way then any next gen videoplayer will. And for sure BR isn't a clear winner. These numbers are still to small, no mass buying anything there yet
more actual HD-DVDs than Sony is selling Blu-Ray DVDs. It's great and all that PS3's are tallied and are selling ok compared to innovators for HD-DVD (take a marketing class), but if they aren't selling any movies on the system and most people still use DVD's how does that help in the format war? Early adopters haven't even started their purchasing of either. Again Sony forcing gamers to buy a Blu-Ray player seems funny to me, how about a good game or two. I'll stick to good old DVD's until prices on a good dual player or one side wins it out for sure, no beta-max for me.
...on this, We get it!
Every 3 days it's flippin Blueray surpasses HD-DVD. Or, Blueray has sold this many to one.
Ok, it's selling more, thanks.
die hddvd die!!!
TIT 4 TAT This and That.....
moving on..