James Delahunty
16 Jan 2007 18:57
Microsoft Corp. sold 92,000 HD DVD add-on drives for the Xbox 360 console in 2006 according to figures released by the NPD Group. This figure is, of course, much lower than the 687,300 PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles sold, each including their own Blu-ray player. However, the 92,000 HD DVD drives sold were bought for the sole purpose of playing HD DVD movies, whereas Blu-ray drives are included in every PS3.
The figure was made up with 42,000 sales in November, and 50,000 sold in December. The figure shows that only 2% of Xbox 360 owners showed enough interest in high definition movies to buy the HD DVD add-on, but it is impossible to know how many PS3 owners bought the console with the Blu-ray player being what they were most interested in.
Source:
Planet Xbox 360