Is winning the HD movie format worth losing game cosole leadership

[Bodhesatva]

I'm absolutely with FishyJoe on this one.

No one has provided any real substantive data that gives us any indication how much money Sony stands to make off Blu Ray. Honestly, it's completely unclear. Keeping in mind they SHARE the patent rights with six other companies who founded the Blu Ray Disc Association:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association

And that there are over 14 companies on the "Board of Directors" now, it's simply impossible to tell how the profits will be split, and how much total will be raked in, assuming everything goes as planned.

Last quarter, Sony lost 800 million dollars on video games. I strongly suspect that they don't stand to gain significantly mroe than that over the lifetime of a format (individually, I mean), but hey, it's all guesses.

I am tired, however, of seeing people defend the PS3's financially disastrous results defend by Blu Ray patents. WE REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THESE ARE WORTH TO SONY. Stop implying these totally balance out the billions of dollars in losses accrued by the gaming department, because we simpy do not know.