antfromtashkent on 17 July 2008
| rocketpig said: MS wouldn't have profited much at all from HD-DVD's success. I doubt they made much from the drives themselves (they were pretty cheap) and they made no royalties from disc sales (other than the marginal amount they receive from their codecs used in HD-DVD). People seem to be very confused about MS's stake in HD-DVD. They owned the rights to a few codecs and would have profited somewhat from those had the format succeeded... Other than that, they were just looking to be a thorn in Sony's (and Blu-ray's) side. They had very little financial stake in the format, nor would they have profited much from its success. |
i agree they might not have profited from the sales of HD DVDs themselves but the newer models of 360 would have HD drives rite now and if BR was dead in the water the PS would be in WIKED trouble rite now and with the wining format you always have a leg up on your competition... but this is going back to format wars and i dint like them to begin with... the point is with HD DVD 360 would have a new format to work with that is alot better then their current one is
