fooflexible on 20 April 2007
yeah that's why Nintendo has to make money on the hardware, the only way Sony does well if there is alterior ways of making money, so the blu-ray in alot of ways was important to Sony. It was no longer just a source of revenue but it was ensuring the success of the rest of the company's endeavors. That's the only reason to take such a loss. microsoft too, they knew that x-box was simply going to lose them money, that was their ticket into the living room which they felt was the future, so they felt like having a stake in it was worth it.
