Interesting Article about Sony (and VGCharts sighting)

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whatever said:

HappySqurriel said:

gamerman1 said:
I wonder how much money Sony makes on each Blu-ray disc sold? Any ideas?

Not much ...

I would suspect that licencing fees on Blu-Ray would be similar to those on DVD which would probably be (something like) $1 or $2 per disc and $10 per player/recorder; on top of this Sony doesn't fully own the format so these revinues would be split across all stakeholders in the format and Sony would probably end up with less than $0.50 per disc sold.

Sony's lost revinues from the PS3 will not be recovered in their gained revinues from Blu-Ray.

 If this were true, then I doubt there would be such a format battle.  Everyone would have agreed on a single next gen DVD format and things would be alot farther along by now.  I would have to think there is alot more money at stake than you seem to think.

I think Sony actually owns Blu-Ray.. they invented the product.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-l.html see 2003

Also if Blu Ray becomes the dominant format then it will produced in the BILLIONS! So even if Sony only makes $1 on each disc they'll be making a ton of cash.