HappySqurriel on 24 August 2007
| Solidar said: I have a theory that Sony put a Blu-ray player in the PS3 for the sole purpose of trying to win the HD war. I think Sony is more worried about winning that war than making the PS3 successful. Sony will make a lot more money if Blu-ray wins than they would on the PS3, no matter how successful it is. There are a lot more people that watch movies than there are people that play games. Plus, most people buy a larger library of movies than they do games... |
I have said since well before the PS3 launched that I couldn't see how Sony could be more profitable from Blu-Ray than from theoritical profits from the PS3; they probably make 10 to 20 times as much revenue from the licencing of a third party PS3 game than they would from the licencing off of a Blu-Ray movie. I honestly believe that Sony never saw the risk in selling a console for $600 and believed that people would line-up to pay it in record numbers; essentially they thought they could easily win the HD war because 30 Million gamers would buy the PS3 by the end of 2007 because gamers love the Playstation brand.
