kowenicki said:
-CraZed- said:
kowenicki said:
-CraZed- said:
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.
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It has everything to do with it. This whole story is a corporate penis size story as asked through the mouth of a fanboy question on gtv to Pachter. It's a perfect fanboy-hits-to-website question.
By the way, you are also correcting someone based on a guess. So you may just as wrong as he is. I guess it's one dollar. You guess it's 2 or 3. As I said, either way it's close to fuck all.
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For you apparently it does. I don't give two $ hits who is paying who. Most of these companies are licensing something from one another. So as I said it has nothing to do with my particular posting or point. And also my correction didn't have to do with the $2-$3 dollars it had to do with the amount of royalties due for each drive and the software attached to each XBOX One Produced. If you actually read my post you'd see that I only state that Mr. 'mostly wrong' Pachter is probably more right than the OP.
For your reading pleasure..... and http://www.one-blue.com/royalty-rates/
