Aren't Universal and Paramount Doing Fine?

[Blu-Ray Buckeye]

Originally Posted by swivel

Wrong. As long as hardware sales stay 80:20 as well, they could keep the same market share as everyone else. And hardware sales are actually higher than that (ignoring the PS3, which I agree, is silly).

If you agree it's silly then why bother mentioning that "hardware sales are actually higher than that"? So when you're not "being silly" you agree that hardware sales are not actually better than that, I guess.

Listen, here's some real logic, not your quasi-logic.

HD DVD was getting beat every week last year when they were either even or perhaps had a slight advantage in terms of standalones sales. Let's call it 50/50 for the sake of argument. With a 50/50 split on SALs they were losing s/w 65/35... weird. Now with a proposed 80/20 split on SAL's they'll suddenly be able to sell on par with that ratio? Why? The studio support situation has gotten much worse.

Bottom line, if h/w sales, excluding PS3, stabilize at 80/20 then the s/w ratio will drive above 90/10 blu. And no, that would not be "doing OK" or "successful" for HD DVD or Universal or Paramount.