Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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Their 50% market share figure probably comes from their old habit of pretending the PS3 doesn't count as a BluRay player.
And your remark probably comes from pretending that 100% of PS3 owners play BluRay movies.
Don't be so willing to jump on the fanboi train when you clearly have no more clairvoyance than Toshiba or Nielsen or anyone when it comes to market share.
You dont exactly need clairvoyance to predict the market share as its has pretty much always been 1:2
Looking in my crystal ball, I predict 1:2000 in 12 months :D
Yeah. Despite a real price advantage HD DVD only managed to roughly split the standalone player market with Blu-ray. And since Toshiba accounts for nearly the entire HD DVD standalone market, that means they alone can claim nearly 50% of the HD player market. The Blu-ray camp splits the pie more ways.
Sounds impressive when it isn't in context. When you consider that they had a major price advantage, including $99 sales, and didn't manage to take a significant sales lead - that's not so great. And that still ignores all PS3s. I'd never count *all* PS3s as BD players, but counting none of them is equally invalid. I'm one of the people who owns a PS3 and uses it primary for movies. I own 30-40 BD titles, I own 3 games. (Well, one of those is The Orange Box, so it has a few games in there.)
If lowered prices - even lower than the new reduction - didn't help HD DVD take a decisive lead during the peak shopping season, I don't see this new reduction helping it take the lead during what is normally the slowest shopping season of the year.