drkohler said:
And as usual, this moron is completely wrong when it comes to numbers. It's not like you can actually look up the blu-ray royalty rates on the intenet. Oh no, wait......... (It's actually $1.25 for a pc with installed bd software, and XBox One is certainly registeres as such, and the consortium is about 15 companies, so Sony gets around 10c)
stealh edit: forgot the drive. So it's actually around 50c for Sony |
You are misreading the royalty table... That's $1.25 to $1.75 for the software (depending on whether it is 'bundled') with the actual BR Drive, which will most likely be categorized as a PC, and is $7.00 per unit. That is around $8.25 - $8.75 (unless it is classified as a player then the cost actually goes up to $9.00+) to be divied up amongst BluRay Association and it is very fair to say Sony is at or near the top of the pecking order within that organization so they will indeed be getting the lion's share of those royalties. $2-$3 is not out of the question. Then you have the discs themselves on top of that.
Hate to say it but Mr. 'mostly wrong' Pachter is probably right in this case and you are most likely wrong.
