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supercat on 30 April 2010
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Gnizmo said:
supercat said:
Well, Sony will still make a lot of money selling movies like Titanic, Superman, Aliens, and so forth, it doesn't really have to matter if these are sony productions or not. But all else equal for an average movie with X amount of sales and an average Sony movie wtih X amount of Sales, sony will want to put the Sony choice in because it will have a greater margin. It would be stupid not to take advantage of the places where you do have an advantage, read some Sun Tzu my friend.

So, if it isn't a sony movie then it's probably a more recent movie or a big one. Similar concept with music.

Sony does not, apparently, like cutting deals with Sony. Ghostbusters, a Sony IP, was a multi-platform game. Logically it should make sense, but the company seems very divided to me at this point. I don't think its the smartest move they could make, but I am not paid billions of dollars to decide such things so I could very easily be wrong.


Sony works together a lot better than it did in the past.  In fact, off the top of my head I can give two examples of products that require a large amount of cooperation between the various divisions. 

1.  Blu-ray requires cooperation between Sony's entertainment divsion as well as whichever produces the discs, as well as the part of the company that does intellectual property, as well as sony electronics that makes the blu-ray players. Sony isn't just a products company it's also an intellectual property company that's why they keep trying to push out formats so that they can control and make $$$ of the format. 

2.  The 3-d initiative.  This requires that sony's entertainment division works with the movies division as well as the disc production division as well as the electronics because sony also has 3-d movie projectors/ 3-d cameras for move shooting, etc as well as intellectual property in this, as well as smaller software companies that sony has bought that just do work for 3-d movies.

So, if all we are talking about is paying another division for the right to sell a movie or music video, then that should be no big deal compared to the coordination just outlined because you do realize that both Bd and the 3-d formats would have to be designed so that other divisions would be able to take advantage of them as well which implies a big deal of coordination.