81:19 Nielsen/VideoScan Weekly Sales Numbers

[marzetta7]

Originally Posted by BTBuck1

Why not?, he got banned for being a Douschebag

J/k, I had to. You left the door wide open!

Hehehehehehhe.

[lztp6k]

Originally Posted by BluOgre

Either it was the $98 player or the $199 player, they were giving away 3 movies at the point of sale along with the mail-in-rebate for 5 others.

It was just like the X360 add on, they gave away movies for free with it that counted towards the sales because they were scanned at the POS. That's why Heroes has made a big jump back on the sales charts.

It was the $199 A3 which gave 3 free movies from the shelf.

[ikbradley]

Originally Posted by BluOgre

The only thing you would have to account for is the free movies that were given at the time of purchase that counted as "sales". But I thought the majority of the sales were spiderman week, not Rat week. Oh well, I'll say this I was telling everyone not to expect Rat to sell like the Spider because you have to look at who your customers are current for highdef. It's not exactly family friendly yet. Disney admitted this to me in a meeting. It's one reason why you don't see Jungle Book on highdef right now (DVD just released again last month). Next year is when Disney is expecting to have some of their animated titles (Sleeping Beauty and Tinker Bell I think) go blu.

With this said, there may be some sleeper hits that could produce large numbers. It strikes me that Superbad is the type of title that a lot of PS3 users would get.

65 is a decent number if true. However, keep in mind that if HD DVD cannot push the numbers closer after the firesale, this is a clear indication to Warner that no matter what Toshiba does, things are not going to change.

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by BluOgre

Either it was the $98 player or the $199 player, they were giving away 3 movies at the point of sale along with the mail-in-rebate for 5 others.

It was just like the X360 add on, they gave away movies for free with it that counted towards the sales because they were scanned at the POS. That's why Heroes has made a big jump back on the sales charts.

if you are going to believe vaughn then you have to believe these numbers are due to low blu-ray sales, not an increase in hd dvd sales. i cited some estimates in a previous post, either vaughn in wrong about blu-ray sales or both sides had excellent weeks. a good hd dvd week is 100k i believe, if that is the case and ratatouille only did 70k, that means that everything else in our catalog sold a combined total of 130k which is very, very impressive and shows that while ratatouille might not be a hot seller on blu-ray, the rest of our catalog is really taking off and that means new guys are buying blu-ray.

[vw mofo]

Originally Posted by lztp6k

It was the $199 A3 which gave 3 free movies from the shelf.

That sale was the week before during Spiderman's release week. There were no good deals to be had for HD DVD last week.

[sj001]

Originally Posted by ikbradley

With this said, there may be some sleeper hits that could produce large numbers. It strikes me that Superbad is the type of title that a lot of PS3 users would get.

65 is a decent number if true. However, keep in mind that if HD DVD cannot push the numbers closer after the firesale, this is a clear indication to Warner that no matter what Toshiba does, things are not going to change.

So if they push things closer, to like almost 50/50, what then? Stay neutral? It would be just an endless stalemate... I think that they are smarter than that and can see the longer term picture, not the short term gains.

[lztp6k]

Originally Posted by ikbradley

With this said, there may be some sleeper hits that could produce large numbers. It strikes me that Superbad is the type of title that a lot of PS3 users would get.

65 is a decent number if true. However, keep in mind that if HD DVD cannot push the numbers closer after the firesale, this is a clear indication to Warner that no matter what Toshiba does, things are not going to change.

If these numbers are true for a single week they closed the gap by 6 points on a week with no good releases on red but some killer releases on blu. I'm sure this will be a small dip and will widen when POTC:3 comes out.

[k20king]

Originally Posted by Razzy

"BD only won the week 65-35"

Too bad Ratatouille, Cars & Spiderman are only on Blu ray.

you can see the bias in his writing, what a goof!

i guess this guy doesn't care about his credibility. which is retarded if you are a writer or critic.

Go Blu!

[stockstar1138]

if the numbers are already out what is taking so long for this damn magazine to get uploaded.

[BadAss]

If Mr. Vaughn had these numbers early then whats taking so long for them to hit the nxbook.com site?

Smell something fishy?

[L or S of Perfect?]

Wow wtf. That blows.

I hope he mixed up the YTD & the weekly data, although that's pretty doubtful.

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by k20king

you can see the bias in his writing, what a goof!

i guess this guy doesn't care about his credibility. which is retarded if you are a writer or critic.

Go Blu!

OK I'm not going to attack the man, but if you want to judge his credibility for yourself go back a few months and read the Insiders Thread during the whole "yields" issue.

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by L or S of Perfect?

Wow wtf. That blows.

I hope he mixed up the YTD & the weekly data, although that's pretty doubtful.

no, that is very, very possible. i didn't even think about that. this guy is a douchebag.

[w_tanoto]

not yet?

can 65:35 be trusted?

[lztp6k]

Originally Posted by w_tanoto

not yet?

can 65:35 be trusted?

I wouldn't trust it until you see it at the Neilsen site.

[sj001]

Originally Posted by w_tanoto

not yet?

can 65:35 be trusted?

No. To both questions.

[gear]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

no, that is very, very possible. i didn't even think about that. this guy is a douchebag.

That would make sense because then no one can say he lied. He simply mentions the YTD and everyone thinks he's talking week.

[badboi]

Don't know about you guys, but I'll wait for the official numbers to be released. After reading some of the stuff this guy wrote, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could flush him.

[Teazle]

Originally Posted by w_tanoto

not yet?

can 65:35 be trusted?

Can "Take it from me, Warner will drop HD-DVD Thurs at 10am " be trusted?

[Papi4baby]

Originally Posted by lztp6k

The $98 player did not include any scanned movies. It came with 5 from mail-in-rebate.

Some places were giving away a few movies too with the A2 and the 360 add on, that would get scanned and then discounted.