theprof00 said:
Kasz216 said:
raygun said:
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bdbdbd said:
@raygun: Wii has easilly 18 games i want to buy. That's to add to the more than 18 games i already own for it.
You know, you may not notice but you just pointed out the stupidity in Sonys strategy. Since you obviously want to watch BD; if PS3 didn't have BD player in it, you had bought a BD player to go with your 16 BD:s. Now Sony sold you a BD player they made loss with, instead of selling a standalone player that had been sold at a profit. Sounds like they lost money twice with selling you the PS3.
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Stupidity??? You forget Sony was in a battle with Microsofts HD video format. Who knows, maybe the PS3s had a major part to play in blu-rays win, at one time I remember reading that 75% of the blu-ray players 'in the wild' were PS3s. Imagine if the PS3 didn't have blu-ray, would HDvideo have won the war? Then Sony would have really been in trouble. But they were smart and stuck a blu drive in their PS3 to help it win the format war. So now with every blu-ray sold Sony makes a profit. Simple. And yet you call that stupid strategy?? And they haven't lost twice, jezzus! I have bought 18 games so far, and Sony wouldn't have gotten those sales if I bought a stand alone player, RIGHT?? Also, as far as attachment rates are concerned, the fact that some people bought a PS3 solely as a blu-ray player because it was the best player available brings down the 'attachment rate'. Yet they fail to factor in the profit from blu-ray video sales sold to people who just own a PS3, like me. Shouldn't blu-ray VIDEOS be counted as SOFTWARE sales in PS3's case?? What would that do to the 'attachment rate'? LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE MY FRIENDS, THERE WAS NO FLAW IN THEIR STRATEGY!
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The fact that you called it Microsofts HD video format.... pretty much shows how much you know about the subject. (little.)
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It's too bad nobody can figure out how much MS was actually funding HDDVD or how much was paid to Universal or Paramount (I forget which).
However, the HDDVD drive on 360 was for a long while, the cheapest HDDVD player on the market.
Perhaps he meant it metaphorically... a viewpoint a lot of people share.
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A viewpoint that is wrong... I may as well say Lays potato chips are a Sony product.
Sure, Microsoft was funding HD-DVD, for no real benefit to themselves.
Regardless... some things to know about Blu-ray and Sony profitability.
1) Sony owns LESS then 30% of the IP.
2) The Blu-ray Assosiation wasn't collecting too many royalties until 2008... after Februrary some time.
3) Blu-ray is not expected to be as profitable as DVD... due to digital distribution, China's own HD format (you'd be surprised just how up it is on Blu-ray despite being released later) and a number of other reasons.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9874317-7.html
4) Blu-ray royalties are not $30 dollars for a player anymore. They are $23.75.
4) Blu-ray royalties are expected to plunge in prices. Quicker then DVDs ever did... why? See number 3.
They are plunging 40% per drive. So now each drive will be... $9.50 per drive... actually cheaper then the $12 DVD was making... last year. Why? Probably trying to regain the chinese market and chinese manufacturers... probably number 3.
http://www.myce.com/news/Blu-ray-prices-to-fall-as-patent-holders-simplify-licensing-15591/?utm_source=cdfreaks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email_newsletter_activestories_week
It looks like a giant wash honestly.
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