| Jason77 said: Sony making their money base on the sell of blu-ray disk and home entertainment system. PS3 is just a step stone. |
How exactly will that work?
Sony has a foothold with BD, /assuming/ it becomes popular. The problem is that it is very expensive to get a BD player right now -- more expensive than it was when HD DVD was still around. People see very expensive players and very expensive discs, and they don't see why they need to switch from DVD. Some of them wouldn't even notice a quality difference on their HD TVs. Hell, I've seen people struggle to notice a difference between standard def broadcasts and HD broadcasts -- and there is a huge, night-and-day difference. Whereas the difference between BD and DVD is more like night-and-dusk.
The point is that Sony always made a ton of money on their consoles. And this time there was some bad engineering and some bad calculations and now they're losing a ton of money. And they're unlikely to recover it with the PS3.
