Will sales from other countries help determine the winner?? - Blu-ray Forum

dipset420 · 10-17-2006, 08:46 PM

I was just thinking about who would win and why and then i thought of the playstation 3. japan barely supports xbox360 but you know they are going to buy ps3 like crazy. so they will buy blu-ray movies and i dont know too much about the people in europe to know what system they want.

so if japan and europe support the ps3 and buy all these blu-ray movies will that have an outcome in the american market

JTK · 10-17-2006, 08:56 PM

Absolutely.

The whole world definitely figures into everything.

zombie · 10-17-2006, 09:21 PM

Absolutely not. What sells in one market may not sell in another. Take VCD for instance which was popular in Asia for years but never caught on here. Minidisc is still popular in Japan to my knowledge, yet failed to catch on here. It's quite possible one format will do well here but the other will do well internationally.

Bullseye · 10-17-2006, 09:25 PM

What would happen if Blue Ray did well in Europe & Japan and HD-DVD in the states? Would they continue the two formats?

zombie · 10-17-2006, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullseye

What would happen if Blue Ray did well in Europe & Japan and HD-DVD in the states? Would they continue the two formats?

Sure, why wouldn't they?

They'd probably stop releasing in areas where the product isn't moving though.

Bullseye · 10-17-2006, 09:30 PM

It would be strange though. Could you imagine if Beta had have survived alongside VHS

PurpleAardvark · 10-17-2006, 10:11 PM

I think that Japan and China are to huge Markets that will help in desiding this war. We all know were Japan is going to fall, but China is a whole other story.

phloyd · 10-17-2006, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by PurpleAardvark

We all know were Japan is going to fall, but China is a whole other story.

China will probably do something else with red lasers.

It is interesting that BD will hit the UK before HD DVD. What has Toshiba been doing all this time?

JTK · 10-17-2006, 11:45 PM

Come to think of it, I guess my earlier answer was a bit too fast and simplistic and I can offer one obvious example:

Xbox 360.

The Xbox platform has been, and continues to be, dead in the East since day one.

Many people, including myself, have said that MS ought to just pull out of the East and forget about it. Maybe they will some day, who knows?

But the 360 is a very successful console even at that. Certainly they would be way more successful if they were doing well in the East.

The gist of my earlier post was: No one is unimportant.

Also: If either one of these new optical formats wants to outright succeed and replace DVD some day...they need to have worldwide success.

10-17-2006, 08:46 PM	#1
dipset420 Active Member Member since:Oct 2006	Will sales from other countries help determine the winner?? I was just thinking about who would win and why and then i thought of the playstation 3. japan barely supports xbox360 but you know they are going to buy ps3 like crazy. so they will buy blu-ray movies and i dont know too much about the people in europe to know what system they want. so if japan and europe support the ps3 and buy all these blu-ray movies will that have an outcome in the american market

10-17-2006, 11:45 PM	#9
JTK Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jan 2006 Location:www.blurayoasis.com	Come to think of it, I guess my earlier answer was a bit too fast and simplistic and I can offer one obvious example: Xbox 360. The Xbox platform has been, and continues to be, dead in the East since day one. Many people, including myself, have said that MS ought to just pull out of the East and forget about it. Maybe they will some day, who knows? But the 360 is a very successful console even at that. Certainly they would be way more successful if they were doing well in the East. The gist of my earlier post was: No one is unimportant. Also: If either one of these new optical formats wants to outright succeed and replace DVD some day...they need to have worldwide success. Last edited by JTK; 10-17-2006 at 11:52 PM.

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10-17-2006, 08:56 PM	#2
JTK Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jan 2006 Location:www.blurayoasis.com	Absolutely. The whole world definitely figures into everything.

10-17-2006, 09:21 PM	#3
zombie Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:May 2004 Trading Score:865	Absolutely not. What sells in one market may not sell in another. Take VCD for instance which was popular in Asia for years but never caught on here. Minidisc is still popular in Japan to my knowledge, yet failed to catch on here. It's quite possible one format will do well here but the other will do well internationally.

10-17-2006, 09:25 PM	#4
Bullseye Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Sep 2006 Location:Ireland Home Theater Gallery:24 4K collection:70 Blu-ray collection:760 Blu-ray reviews: 44	What would happen if Blue Ray did well in Europe & Japan and HD-DVD in the states? Would they continue the two formats?

10-17-2006, 09:30 PM	#6
Bullseye Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Sep 2006 Location:Ireland Home Theater Gallery:24 4K collection:70 Blu-ray collection:760 Blu-ray reviews: 44	It would be strange though. Could you imagine if Beta had have survived alongside VHS

10-17-2006, 10:11 PM	#7
PurpleAardvark Active Member Member since:Jul 2006 Location:Cross Plains, WI	I think that Japan and China are to huge Markets that will help in desiding this war. We all know were Japan is going to fall, but China is a whole other story.

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