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Originally Posted by Westlo
Nothing should top this since all the series that have outsold Haruhi have already been released on Bluray.
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Well, I do have to wonder how many units a Gundam SEED BD Box would move. It's only had a DVD re-release, right? Which I think moved 12k or so units. But I have no idea how fervent the fanbase still is for it today.
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Only halved the sales from s1 to s2...
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On the other hand, it's easily one of the best selling DVD-only series of the last couple years, i.e. since BD became ubiquitous and expected by consumers. Especially consumers who would buy a show like Haruhi. It's not at all a stretch to assume many people were waiting for exactly this kind of release (which ended up being only 8 months from last vol to box, even less to announcement). 30k can't just be fans of the original series because moving 75% of your initial singles sales when the numbers are this high is just so incredibly outside the norm.
I agree that less would have waited for a BD set if E8 were shorter, but there's no way sales wouldn't have been halved if a BD release had been simultaneous with the DVDs. On the other hand sales of this set would likely have been lower.
Regardless, Haruhi makes ludicrous amounts of money in all forms.