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'Pirates' Outsells 'Matrix' in High-Def Showdown
An anonymous reader writes "As Slashdot recently reported, last week saw the latest showdown between HD DVD and Blu-ray, with both formats bringing out the big guns in terms of high profile format-exclusive disc releases. In one corner were the Blu-ray exclusive releases of the first two 'Pirates of the Caribbean' films on Blu-ray — in the other, the HD DVD exclusive releases of 'The Matrix' Trilogy. So who won the sales battle? According to preliminary estimates, this one goes to 'Pirates' in a big way. The two 'Pirates' flicks sold an estimated 47,000 units, while the 'Matrix' sets sold just about 13,900 units. Is this an indication of movie quality, or another notch in the belt for the Blu-ray format?"
Don't know about you, but I don't see either of those sales figures setting the world on fire. Not with 1.2 Billion DVD's being sold in 2004, and Finding Nemo selling 28 million DVDs alone in 2003.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Planet Earth is available on HDDVD & Blu-ray. The HDDVD version outsold the Blu-ray version.
Today the HDDVD version is ranked #6 while the Blu-ray version is ranked #20 on Amazon for Disk sales.
Also Pirates is funny, adventorus, exciting, works for the whole family, and Jack is HOT!
Where only the first Matrix movie is good and that's sort of fucking old and noone would buy it again.
So yes, of course Pirates sells more, whatever format, since it's a much better movie.
Thought I still hope bluray wins just to piss Microsofts evil strategy of and also because there are plenty of bluray burners already.