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THizzle7XU @ Dec 7th 2008 1:02AM
How is over 1/3 of all Wall-E movies sold being on Blu-ray classified as not doing well? Doesn't this mean 1 of of every three people are buying it on Blu-ray one week after it's released? I'd say that is pretty solid.
THizzle7XU @ Dec 7th 2008 1:07AM
You also gotta figure there was a two disc Blu-ray version of Wall-E without digital copy as well, and it's the three disc version specified on the list. I'm not sure why there was the two disc version since they cost nearly the same (at least on Amazon), but those two versions together add up to at least a little more.
3dpenguin @ Dec 7th 2008 2:47AM
You're also forgetting this is over a week after wall-e came out, most people who wanted Wall-e on DVD bought it the week before (Nov 18), and probably a few people who didn't buy Wall-e took advantage of the Blu-ray player deals and went ahead and picked up the movie also, continuous sales on a DVD doesn't usually keep up with the market for more than one week, especially when a new title at the same level of release comes out the next week.
squiggleslash @ Dec 7th 2008 8:22AM
The chart contains two Wall-Es.
The 3 Disc Special Edition is the one where BDs had a 35.47% market share. That is, if they shifted 6,453 copies of Wall-E 3 Disc Special Edition DVD, then they shifted 3547 copies of Wall-E 3 Disc Special Edition BD.
However, the three disc special edition BD was also considerably less popular than the regular Wall-E BD, which sold three times as many copies, but only managed a 7.85% marketshare. That is, if they shifted 41,467 copies of Wall-E Widescreen/Fullscreen single disc edition, then they shifted 3,533 copies of regular, non-three disc, Wall-E BD.
Over-all, the Wall-E market share was slightly under 13%, which was good for Blu-ray but isn't anything close to the 1/3 you're suggesting.
So it's not the case that "over 1/3 of all Wall-E movies sold being on Blu-ray" for a variety of reasons.