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Not many people care about HD
Not many people care about HD
1UP - August 8, 2007
Submitted by judge_khan (449) at 2:32AM PST on August 9, 2007
According to the NPD results, only 40% of PlayStation 3 owners polled were aware the machine had a Blu-ray player and 30% of Xbox 360 owners were aware of the HD graphics capabilities of the machine.
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1@Laoldar,
I think its too soon to say whether or not Nintendo made an ideal choice by not embracing HD, the Wii hasn't been out for a whole year yet. It is possible though. The important thing about Sony & MS embracing HD is that for many, particularly the hardcore gamers, it delivers a significant improvement to their experience & the technology allowed HD quite easily. And the hardcore gamers buy the most software, by far. I just read that recently in a study. In a few years HDTV ownership will reach over 50% of households, I believe it's at 30%+ right now in the US, and then we have the conversion to digital cable. 2-3 years from now will truly reveal whether or not HD gaming was truly worth the cost.[ Oracle ] [ Level 26 ] [ Rank: 241 ]bids
4@Making_Waves,
True, probably by 2009/2010 especially with the conversion to digital cable signals. It will be crucial for the next console generation.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]bids
2Making_Waves posted on Industry News at 12:00PM PST on August 9, 2007. RE: Not many people care about HDI think in time people will start to really care about HD and such things. But as of now, the technology is still a tad to expensive for people to start to really embrace it.
It's almost there though. I'm sure there's some data out there showing the growing trend of HD TVs or something that I'm to lazy to find, but I would say it's only so many years before HD is completely embraced.[ Elite ] [ Level 14 ] [ Rank: 706 ]bids
2Interesting. Just goes to show that MS/Sony have been wasting a lot of time/money promoting features that consumers don't seem to care about. It says a lot about their brands and game lineups that 60-70% of buyers didn't know about a key feature of the platform, but still bought into it.
I wopnder if this is just confirmation that most gamers don't have an HD capable television? Looks like Nintendo was right to ignore HD for this gen.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 182 ]bids
1judge_khan posted on Industry News at 2:32AM PST on August 9, 2007. RE: Not many people care about HD
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