| abhiram_33 said: if Xbox uses blu-ray wouldn't they have to pay a royalty to Sony |
In an extremely roundabout way yes. Sony is part of the founding members of blu-ray. However they were also a founding member of DVD. There were in fact far fewer companies that created DVD than were involved with Blu-ray. There were 4 founding members of DVD and 9 for blu-ray.
So it depends on how the licensing works and what split the company makes from it. If the companies each get an exactly equal split of the money (which is unlikely) then it would have to cost just over twice as much to use blu-ray than dvd for Sony to make the same amount from each Xbox 720 sold as each xbox 360.
So yea long story short. MS already pays the DVD founding members for 360, it will then pay the blu-ray founding members for 720. Sony is a member of both of these groups.
