UK Disc sales to date comparison.

[gandley]

This is how sales stand pre PS3, will be interesting to compare at a later date.

Feb is still TBC

Preivious sales were

Blu Ray:
October 148 discs sold
November 492 discs sold
December 1194 discs sold
January 1,174 discs sold

HD DVD:
November 673 discs sold
December 7527 discs sold
January 5525 Discs sold

Totals: Blu Ray 3008 discs
HD DVD 13725 discs


This is with HD-DVD players availble in quantity and with healthy player imports from the USA + the 360 addon. I dont think one has to be a genious to see that the PS3 effect could either level the playing field or dominate the market even if only a low number of PS3 users buy a movie or two, the numbers for Blu ray will shoot up.

As a guess say only 250 000 consoles enter the UK at launch and only 25% buy a movie, well you do the math.

Just shows how piddly the current market is here in old blighty at the mo