NiKKoM said:
Kasz216 said:
Gazz said:
As many, if not all of you know Sony owns a small but substantial stake in Square Enix, 8.9% to be exact*. In a ironic twist of events they saw their stock value rise with 5.22%** today to 20.16 € and the fact that one of 2 FF13 (versus is still PS3 exclusive) games will go multiplatform to the competition provided that. I finbd it extremely funny that Sony seems to profit from the 360 fanboys who are indirectly fueling the competition.
* http://www.square-enix.com/jp/ir/e/stock/stockholder/
** http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?d=t&s=9684&m=BE
Either this is just a stroke of luck for Sony or a brilliant marketing plan in which they use their influence to promote the PS3 version as superiour and Blu ray as a nessecity. As the second biggest shareholder in the company they certainly carry enough weight. Shareholders (1 and 2 are the same) above Sony are both Enix for those who do not know.
One thing is for sure, 360 fanboys (like the ones to be found here) made Sony a whole lot richer today. Sony thanks you for that
Edit: wtf is up with the letters?
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Eh Microsoft benefits off of every blu-ray disc sold due to winning the DRM bid.
So when PS3 won the format war... it made Microsoft a lot more richer.
Blu-ray DRMs probably are worth more then the one time minor stock gain.
I wouldn't think about it too hard.
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No they didn't.. Sony is in the same DRM consortium.. they actually lost a lot of future profits.. they lost the codecs war... if HD-DVD had won Microsoft would have earned a lot more because of the codec they developed for HD movies..
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Ehm, you're even optimist for MS: with format war they didn't lose once, they didn't twice, they lost FIVE TIMES:
1st: as you said, codecs war and royalties from codecs implementations developed by MS
2nd: losing format and codecs war, they lost the possibility to push, amongst all possible video codecs in BD and HD-DVD standards, the one they choosed as the standard for their online premium contents, and MS wanted from it a big boost for its role in entertainment market
3rd: they lost their opportunity with interactive contents, HD-DVD used Windows CE for it
4th: losing interactive, they lost twice, as the winner is Java, that's used for BD interactive contents, and MS fears and hates Java
5th: (this is perhaps the smallest loss, given MS' huge cash, as it's only a money loss) how many HD-DVD drives for XB360 they already built or paid for and still not sold when HD-DVD was stabbed to death?
