Blu-ray outselling HD DVD 2 to 1 this year

[wraggster]

via joystiq

According to Home Media Research, Blu-ray outsold HD DVD 2-to-1 in the US during the first half of '07. If you want the big numbers, it's 1.6 million Blu-ray units compared to 795,000 HD DVD units. If those numbers are too big, just take a look at the recent release of 300, which sold 190,000 units on Blu-ray and 97,000 on HD DVD.

Perhaps these two formats can seek peaceful coexistence, but as things stand right now, Blockbuster has gone Blu-ray and so have some retailers. We really don't care who wins the movie format war, but we'd prefer people spending their money on a couple extra games instead of possibly throwing their money away on a console attachment for a dying not-selling-as-well format.

[SSaxdude]

Sony's PS3 helped sell Blu-Ray, at the expense of out selling the Xbox 360/Wii. It's kind of a win-lose situation.

[F9zDark]

Perhaps, but since Sony is one of the founding fathers of Blu-Ray and is part of the BR Association, they are still earning tons of money from BR movie and game sales.