Last week, the HD DVD Promotions Group announced that they had sold more than 750,000 HD DVD players. The Blu-ray Disc Association has finally responded to these
claims, stating that they have sold more than 2.7 million units since the format's launch. As with HD DVD's claims, this number
includes set-top players as well as Blu-ray capable gaming devices like the PlayStation 3.
Through October, there had been
2 million units sold of the Blu-ray-enhanced PlayStation 3. That arguably gives Blu-ray set-tops a 700,000 piece of overall format unit
sales. But the picture is muddied somewhat by the likely gangbuster PlayStation 3 sales in November due to the introduction of the
relatively cheap $399 PlayStation 3. November console sales will not be available from the NPD Group until
mid-December.
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