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Xbox360 HD DVD Add On Sales Rise ONE THOUSAND Percent on Amazon
Bamelin
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We just learned what happens when you discount the price on the Xbox 360 HD DVD player and throw in five free movies. Our conclusion, they sell more than they did before. Looking through Amazon.com's sales rank movers and shakers, the Xbox 360 HD DVD player's sales increased over 1,000% since the $20 price drop. Who needs economics 101 when you've got Amazon.com. And if you're looking to cash in on this super sweet deal, give your local Best Buy a try, some stores are offering it for $149.
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/08/02/xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-sales-rise-1-000/#comments
Wow, one thousand percent. I guess the desire to get in on Hi Def video's is abit higher than I thought! I expected the sales to rise abit ... but over one thousand percent? From trolling around other sites I've heard that the Add On is selling like hot cakes at Buy.com and many other sites.
Now if only the the 5 disc deal was available in Canada too. I have no doubt this is what's driving these sales.
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(i'd like one if i had a HDTV)
I use mine as a HD DVD player all the time, haven't had any problems. Besides the 360 runs much cooler when playing movies than it does when playing games. So...you should be terrified of your 360 red ringing if you used it too often as a video game system.
Alert me when the sales are OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!! percent.
edit: Accualt may or may not have fat hands, and the fault in the linking may or may not be of his doing.
Remind me never to click the Insert Link button and just do it myself from now on.
P.S. I'm a skinny nerd, not a fat nerd.
Seriously though that is pretty sweet. 179$ and 5 free movies is a pretty great deal. I have been so pleased with my HD-DVD. 300 and Hot Fuzz arrive today sometime, happy times.
And no one has one the HD war yet as both formats are destroyed by standard DVDs. There might be a winner in 3 or so years when HDTVs enter the mass market and arent just some niche product that over half the population does not even have.
okay.
you lol'd me.
You're right that it doesn't mean anything without the actual sales numbers. Still it at least provides circumstantial evidence that interest in the HD DVD format is there ... while I doubt the HD DVD Add On was selling like gangbusters before, I also doubt it only sold one as in your hypothetical scenerio above.
A 1000% sales increase is therefore substantial.
Well, the picture has it ranked at #16 in sales in Amazon's video games category, which sounds impressive. I've never bought video games, much less hardware, from Amazon, but someone probably does, right? It's currently at #11, although frankly the list of top sellers makes no sense to me. I get all my information from this board, which apparently warps my viewpoint, 'cause I figured it would be all DS, Wii, DS, DS, Wii controller, DS game, etc.
Actual list at this time:
1. PS3
2. Wii
3. PS3 controller
4. DS black
5. Halo 3
6. Wii play
7. Civ 4
8. Wii nunchuck
9. Mario Strikers Charged
10. Wii controller
11. 360 HD-DVD
12. PS2
13. Madden
14. PSP
15. PS3 remote
with the five free deal, and packaged with King Kong, I figured it was a good buy, it get's me pretty movies, and if Blu-Ray wins, I am sure the eventual players will read my discs, since they already have dual format players.
And 300 is AWESOME
Wait what? Really? I've never really seen any indication of anyone winning over the other, other than Porn, and they sided with HDDVD right?
My entire point of view is that HDDVD just has a way better name than blu ray.
That's not always true. There are plenty of examples of products being slashed in price, and nobody picking them up.
A 1000 percent sales increase shows that the demand for HD DVD is there, it's all a matter of price point ... the 5 free HD DVD deal makes it almost like you're getting the 360 Add On for 80 bucks.
Unless the product has been a miserable failure and they are cutting the price to clear out all stocks, a product's sales will usually temporarily increase a lot after a price drop.
I was being sarcastic. No one is winning. Blu Ray just keeps sending out press releases about winning. They are actually both selling very little in the grand scheme of things. While I love my HD-DVD player and will probably end up having a Blu Ray player in the next year or so I am of the belief that DVD is going to reign supreme until Digital Downloads take over.
Bad marketing, not enough repeated letters in the name to be catchy, so it's being replaced with HHDDVVDDBVDs
But in the case of HD DVD that's not what's happening. At all.
Of course since it's an MS product, I'm taking it back to Circuit City today for one that actually works... :0
I haven't heard too much about the HD DVD drives breaking down. I wonder what the warrenty is on them.
a guy I know bought one and expected it to work. But he coudln't figure out why he coudln't plug it into his TV via USB.....and he had no 360, and an old s754 Athlon XP system with no hope of playing HD content.
SHIT. I am now happier with this purchase.
For some people, technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Still a good goddamn deal though, if you know what you're getting.