Does Sony get royalties from each BD sold?

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NJ5 said:

Max King of the Wild said:

NJ5 said:

Gary said:
So they get 2,25 cent par BD sold ? So with the Dark Knight sales they have made +- 500$ ?

How much did it sell? Wasn't it 600k? That would mean $15,000 at 2.5 cents per disc (only a part of which goes to Sony?).

I have yet to see any convincing argument showing that Blu-Ray would make Sony their PS3 losses back.

 

 

no 2.5 cents would go to Sony if we assume blu-ray royalties are the same people pay for DVD's and we assume Sony gets 30%.... and if you can't see how blu-ray would make up the losses then i feel sorry for you.

No need to feel sorry.

Let's see... Around $4 billion in losses (and counting). At 2.5 cents per disc, that means they'd have to sell 160 billion Blu-Ray discs to get that amount back, or 26 Blu-Ray discs to each living human. Granted, there's other sources of revenue such as Blu-Ray player royalties, then again there are other losses involved in Blu-Ray (such as the sacrifice to the Playstation brand). Also, I hardly think Eskimos will be buying many Blu-Ray discs.

See, you don't have to feel sorry for me...

 

In reality there are only 3 markets for BluRay: North America, Western-Europe/Australia and Japan/Korea. Everywhere else piracy is pretty much king. The potential market is under a billion people, so it would mean selling 160 BR discs to every potential customer. Say that the average household consists of 3 persons and you're up to 480 BR discs per potential household.