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Spider-Man 3 didn't break any records on Blu-ray its first week

Spider-Man 3We had a feeling Sony was disappointed with Spider-Man 3's first week of sales on Blu-ray, and now we know why. Sure, 135k copies in one week (not including those bundled with the PS3 or the box set) isn't anything to scuff at, but it doesn't compare to Warner's 300 at 165k. It is however, Sony's biggest title to date -- by far -- as Casino Royal only sold 40k copies. HD DVD fanboys will be quick to point out that the tide is already starting to change and Transformers selling 190k HD DVD discs is proof, but this argument is less than weak when you consider that in the DVD race Transformers out-sold Spidey 3 by a three to one margin. Of course a devout Blu-ray fans may argue that if Transformers would've been on Blu-ray, it would've sold 405k, but that's why we call them fanboys. We do look forward to tomorrow's VideoScan numbers, when we get to see how Spidey did against Transformers in its third week.

[Via FormatWarCentral]

Spider-Man 3 is the top selling Blu-ray title to date

Spider-Man 3Sony says that Spider-Man 3 is their fastest selling Blu-ray to date, but has yet to release actual numbers. We're pretty sure this is bad news for the Blu-ray camp, as we don't think they'd hold back good news. The other reason to believe that the HD DVD camp has reason to gloat, is because on the first day, the Transformers DVD outsold the Spider-Man 3 DVD, by almost three-to-one. So we figure the sales for the first week are somewhere between Casino Royal (100k shipped) and Transformers (190k). But we guess we'll have to wait until Friday's Nielsen numbers to get a better picture of how things shaped up.




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