Gamertell

Blu-ray has outsold HD-DVD by 2 to 1 from January 1 to June 1, 2007, with 1.6 million Blu-ray discs sold in this period and only 7,95,000 HD-DVD discs. According to Home Media Magazine, lifetime sales of Blu-ray and HD-DVD are 2.2 million and 1.5 million discs, respectively, although both hit markets around the same time.

This is good news for Sony since increasing Blu-ray sales could provide PS3 with a much needed boost. The next-gen disc war is in a relatively early stage and it may take some time for one of these formats to replace DVD as the favorite media disc format. Only when one of these competing formats starts to flush-out DVDs from the market will we see these sales figures truly effect the console wars and give Sony the advantage.

The PS3,  even with its steep price seems to be amongst the cheapest Blu-ray disc players in the market that can play games as well (beat that!). Even Nintendo would be closely watching this disc-format race, mainly because, if the PS3 might overtake Xbox 360 sales, giving the Wii stiff competition for the top spot.

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