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RVDondaPC on 22 February 2010
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Lord Flashheart said:

How does setting up your own line contradict my opinion? I never mentioned that until the post you just quoted which wasn't the post you questioned originally and doesn't contradict my opinion in any way shape or fashion. Not even a little forget about completely.

My opinion is DVD's are cheaper to make than BD. As stated many times.
When making each product it's cheaper whether outsourced or done internally to make DVD's than it is to make Blu-rays. The more sold the cheaper still.
Sure the more BD's made drives the cost down but that's only for BD's and also works the same way for DVD's.
All evidence shown so far backs me up that DVD's are cheaper to make than BDs.
And some publishers do manufacture their own disc. Nintendo for certain markets or SEGA. So doesn't that contradict your point?

Sorry, I may have trouble understanding you because your English grammar is rather confusing, but from the first post I quoted you in you stated that, "On a large scale producing BD will cost less but for smaller less well known games that aren't going to sell as well as Uncharted it will impact them more than making the game on DVD9." From that it makes it seem as if you are saying that only producing a large amount of copies of a game will make BD cheaper but if it's only a small amount of games than DVD will be cheaper. To me the only way that is possible is if you are factoring in fixed costs such as setting up a factory line to manufacture the BD's. Well if you knew that publishers don't have their own factories because they outsource the manufacturing to manufacturers, you would know that either BD or DVD would be cheaper regardless of how many copies a game sells because there is no fixed costs to set up a factory line since the manufacturer has already covered that. 

It doesn't matter that you think DVD is cheaper or if you thought that BD was cheaper to produce. The fact that you made a distinction based on how many copies would be sold shows that you are trying to factor in fixed costs that don't exist. 

Also Nintendo and Sega don't manufacture their own discs. You probably think Apple Manufactures their own computers too and that all McDonald restaurants are owned my McDonalds. Just because the name is on it doesn't mean they built it. Publishers/developers create the content of the game and put it on the disc and then they send it to a manufacturer and they make all the copies of the game. It wouldn't make sense for a publisher to have their own factories because one month they may need 5 million discs printed and then the next month they may only need 2 million. Then the next month they may need 10 million discs printed. How do you set up a factory for that that is run efficient? You can't. So they outsource it to manufacturers who can can juggle the demands of many different manufacturer's and therefore they can be much more efficient and reduce the average cost of making a DVD, BD, CD, etc. There may be exclusive manufacturer's that only print games from a certain publisher but that doesn't mean that the publisher owns the manufacturer.