PS3 Pricedrop....!!! Isn't needed :)

[gergroy]

TheTruthProphet said:

sony has squandered the ps2 lead and the ps3 is currently in last place and they also have never made a profit off the ps3.

microsoft is dumb for not paying warner bros 500 million or whatever they wanted to go hd-dvd exclusive. That would have been the end of the playstation as we know it.

However, sony opened their wallet and paid fox and warner half a billion dollars. Which could explain why sony can't afford to drop the price, buy exclusives or advertise

 

 microsoft didn't really have that much to do with HD DVD, they backed the technology and licensced it for the add on, but it was toshiba's baby.  Also, sony doesn't actually own blu ray either, it is owned and operated by the blu ray association which is a group of like 15 different companies.  Sony wasn't even the sole developer of the technology, it was a joint venture between 3 different companies...  So yeah, my point is that Microsoft wouldn't have been the one throwing out the money for hd exclusives... in fact they barely even backed the technology.   Microsoft even gets some of the royalties from blu-ray sales as one of the codecs used in blu-rays was developed by microsoft.