Mr Puggsly said:
Sony is a big company, I doubt those other many companies have an equal share of profits. You don't take a big risk unless you expect a big reward. Sony is the only company on that list that took a big risk and it cost them billions of dollars that PS3 will never recover. |
Sony is smaller than Mitsubishi, HP and Samsung, at least. But it is a big producer of optical drives (and in the past it was even bigger, compared to competitors), and what's more, it obviously expected Blu Ray to take off faster and stronger, so a small share of royalties from a huge market would have meant a far larger sum than what it actually ended up gathering. But there were other reasons too: the implementation of interactive contents of Blu Ray are based on a Java dialect, BD-J, while the most used implementation of HD-DVD interactive contents is HDi, owned by MS. Sony and other entertainment producers members of BDA weren't happy to give MS more power in the entertainment industry, so they kept on supporting Blu Ray, and an attempt of agreement between the two consortia to merge the two competing formats failed also because they couldn't agree on the BD-J vs. HDi dispute.
