jarrod said:
"Easily wiped out" is something I've never seen supported by hard numbers, anywhere. Sony's take on Blu-Ray royalties is said to be under 30%, i would like your numbers when you are questioning others. tell me why would a comapny spend billions for others profits and even less than rival electronics maker Panasonic (who also supplies Nintendo's optical formats btw). no it doesn't make less than Panasonic Sony & Phillips basically had to bring so many companies on board to ensure the format's victory they brought them to take sides adn give their own suggestions and contribute not give them the royalites. that ways DVD has so many members on-borad but only 9 get paid royalties (including rival content firms like Disney and initial HD-DVD backer Warner), Warner didn't have much choice.they were one of the last HD-DVD supported and they already knew that it was going down.even if they had supported it further it would have gone down that they've locked themselves out of the lucrative sort of royalties they started the platform for... the way things went, they might as well have gone with DVD Forum submission. yeah right Sony's still getting a bigger take than they did from DVD (they barely got anything there, Toshiba's standards really took most) do you even know what SONY and TOSHIBA were making from DVD,you are just aking everything out of your ass there were 2 groups for DVD royalties of total 9 companies Toshiba,Matsushita Electric,JVC,Mitsubishi Electric,Hitachi,Time Warner were in the 6C group Sony,Philips,Pioneer were in the 3C group but far, far less than they got off CD-ROM (whose patents, and thus royalties, expired in 2001), and worse they had to basically sacrifice their most valuable product line (PlayStation) in a needless format war of their own making. no they didn't do it for needless war,you will see next gen Also, the BR Group has been steeply dropping license fees to help further drive adoption, every format gtoup does that and that brings more sales which will actually compensate for the smaller royalties perunit but more on overall sales they've been precipitously dropping fees (far faster than DVD did), blu-ray has also been adopted way faster than the DVD.DVD only got its major boost in 2000s not in 1996 but blu-ray got it from start meaning even less return from Sony's perspective. more sales bring more royalties on overall basis,i don't know how is that lees returns At best I think Blu-Ray can be seen as a pyrrhic victory for PS3's failure, most analysts agree the format won't be as lucrative as DVD, CD or VHS, analysts talk bullshit most of the time.we have seen them fail most of the time. its funny how you try to prove your point by saying analysts say this,they say that................lol digital content delivery is on the verge of taking over for film taking over?.....................lmao its far away from taking over and emerging as a force for games, we will see when that happens again its far away from taking over and I'd say it's very arguable if Sony in the long view has actually gained more from Blu-Ray's victory than they have lost from the downfall of and damage to the PlayStation brand... we can only find that out next gen with PS4 and blu-ray's cheaper years |