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theprof00 on 29 December 2009
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Grimes said:
theprof00 said:
jarrod said:
bdbdbd said:
@Maxwell: I have been pointing it out for a few years. I also made a topic about Sony not being able to drop the price of PS3 until BD players drop in price.

PS3 did affect on BD winning over the HD-DVD, so in the sense it likely did pay off in the long run. Although, we are talking about billions of discs sold and maybe even hundreds of millions of players sold, before money starts to come in (depending on how the royalties are split). But, what eventually lead to BD winning over HD-DVD was the studios choosing the platform.

Sony had to split BD royalties so many ways in order to bring other companies in, I have to question if it's even worth the sacrifice of the PlayStation business in the long run (physical media's days are numbered anyway).  They're not collecting the highest percentage of royalties even, Matsushitsa (Panasonic) is iirc.

Usually those royalties only last for a certain number of years. Is there an up to date list of what each gets? (Not asking you to post one, just asking if you think there may be one.)

Last time I checked, the blu-ray royalties were 11 cents per disc. I'm sure the BDA takes a big cut for administration and promotion. Whatever is left is probably divided amongst the various BDA companies. So maybe Sony makes a penny for each disc in blu-ray royalties.

Sony owns nearly a 30% stake, so I'd say they make 2-3 pennies per disc.

Additionally you're forgetting that every BR drive has a charge of $9.50 and every BR recordable drive will run 14$.

In America alone, there were 11M BR players in July 2009, including ps3s.

From July, there have been another 2.8M ps3s sold, but I don't know how many standalones were sold in that period.

This also does not include PC drives.

Also, in the last week, 79M$ worth of movies were sold. 84% of BR movies are 29.99 and under, with 50% being 20-29.99. As an estimate I will say the average price is 25$. Dividing 79M by 25= three point something, or, 3.16M discs sold. At 3 cents per movie, Sony made 95,000$ in royalties last week.

Additionally, they've made say 3$ per player in existence, which, in America, excluding holiday standalone sales, equals 42M$ in royalties.

 

Those pennies add up. I'm astounded that they can actually make 100,000 a week doing nothing.