kowenicki said:
-CraZed- said:
drkohler said:
pezus said:
Someone tell me how to embed this.
He thinks it's $2-$3 per Blu-Ray drive
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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
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You are misreading the royalty table... (pasted below posting) 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 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.
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It doesn't matter who is right or wrong. $25m per annum max? It's almost literally nothing.
It will add 0.003% to Sony existing annual revenue. 0.003%.
its a non story.
how much does Sony pay MS for licensing software, I guess this will mitigate some of that? but when sony join in the android licensing program (if they havent already) it will be dwarfed.
Ms licensing income from android devices alone is to rise from nothing in 2011 to $5bn per annum in 2017. That's a story.
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Soooo... what does that have to do with my post? I was correcting a misinformed member fo the VGChartz forums as he was misreading the royalty tables.... I never said anything about whether it was more or less than the ALP royalties that MS gets. Not to mention that's a story for an Android vs. iOS forum more than it is here. If you'd like to compare corporate penis sizes go right ahead but that was not the intent of my posting. Thanks though.
