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Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » March 29th, 2007, 8:57

Create a forum for it, that'll seal its fate.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » March 29th, 2007, 8:59

does this mean i'm going to have to buy a HD-DVD/Blu-ray player in the near future so i can keep buying dvd's?

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » March 29th, 2007, 9:04

Just keep buying DVD's like 99.9% of the population do, wait for the media war to be over, and buy that time the HD stuff that costs a fortune will start to appear in bargain buckets like DVD'd are after 2 months of being released.

BluRay is inevitably selling lots more than HD-DVD even though it's more expensive to manufacture due to the production studios that are backing the format with Sony.

It is a better technology in terms of storage, and allthough it's more expensive to produce a Blu-Ray disc and devices that can read them, everything now seems to be pointing towards Blu_ray coming out on top.

It wouldn't suprise me if a few years down the line the 360 has a external BluRay player

MrGreen · Post by **MrGreen** » March 29th, 2007, 17:36

The PS3 can also fold at home, yes nobody owns one, but, it makes up for it that the PS3 can fold 30 times faster than an adverage PC (the core CPUs are really good at floating point calculations). Still, the elite looks very tempting.

Post by **TezzRexx** » March 30th, 2007, 8:43

Nobody?

Post by **ProfHawking** » March 30th, 2007, 8:51

Nobody that matters...

Post by **TezzRexx** » March 30th, 2007, 10:04

ProfHawking wrote:Nobody that matters...

MrGreen · Post by **MrGreen** » March 30th, 2007, 12:21

ProfHawking wrote:Nobody that matters...

^That.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » March 30th, 2007, 12:26

TezzRexx wrote:Nobody?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6499841.stm Sums it up quite nicely

MrGreen · Post by **MrGreen** » March 31st, 2007, 12:28

Jesus, I didn't know we had that many sony fanbois

I'm still tempted to buy one though.

MORDETH LESTOK · Post by **MORDETH LESTOK** » March 31st, 2007, 13:09

XBox 360

The International Development Group (IDG) has updated its projections for North America with an estimate for each year. IDG has Xbox 360 in the lead through 2010.

Xbox 360
2006 - 5.6 million
2007 - 11.6 million
2008 - 16.9 million
2009 - 21.1 million
2010 - 23.9 million

PS3
2006 - 0.9 million
2007 - 6.5 million
2008 - 12.7 million
2009 - 18.4 million
2010 - 23.5 million

Wii
2006 - 1.1 million
2007 - 4.5 million
2008 - 8.4 million
2009 - 11.4 million
2010 - 13.6 million

Merrill Lynch picks a winner, and it's Xbox 360. Merrill Lynch has Worldwide, North America, and Japan forecasts through Fiscal Year 2011 (Ending March 31, 2011).

Worldwide
360 - 39%
PS3 - 34%
Wii - 27%

Japan
PS3 - 57%
Wii - 39%
360 - 4%

North America
360 - 50%
PS3 - 27%
Wii - 23%

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"The winner in the next-generation console battle is likely to be the Xbox 360, which is the leader in North America, the world’s biggest market," said Yoshiyuki Kinoshita, research analyst for Merrill Lynch.

"We forecast respective market shares at end-FY3/11 of Xbox 360 [at] 39 percent, PS3 [at] 34 percent and Wii [at] 27 percent, thus overturning Sony’s domination of the market with its PS2-based share of 69 percent, and doubling Microsoft and Nintendo’s respective market shares."

The firm further predicts that in Japan, Sony will take the lead with a 57 percent market share, while Nintendo will take the bulk of the rest at 39 percent of the market. Figures for Xbox were not supplied.

In North America, Microsoft will hold the lead with 50 percent of while Sony and Nintendo will follow with 27 and 23 percent, respectively.

Japan boycotting MS XBox 360?

MrGreen · Post by **MrGreen** » March 31st, 2007, 13:47

Err, when have they not, all the games and players are very western.