starcraft said:
Blu-Ray revenues have to be split between the dozens of members of the Blu-Ray forums. Also, Blu-Ray itself would have cost billions to develop, a cost that wouldn't be reflected in the game division losses. Add to that the fact that the moment the Blu-Ray market gains any traction piracy will ramp up exponentially in a way DVD never faced early on, and the threat of downloads, and you have the very real possibility Blu-Ray succeeding wont have been worth the sacrifice of the gaming division for Sony.
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Though Sony does get the biggest chunk of that... 30% is a decent amount of that change... well once Blu-ray starts rolling.
I'm wondering where Dallas gets 10% of the physical media market though. That seems way off from everything i've read.
They were projecting 15 million total Blu-ray movies sold this year when things were looking good before Blu-ray hit it's big stall... vs something like a billion worth of DVD sales. (They ship like 1.7 billion DVDs a year.)
If it weren't for PS3's though... Blu-ray would already be a flopped format. It and HD-DVD both would of went the way of the Laserdisc already.
The biggest problem is that nobody is buying the cheap blu-ray players. They are all buying the HD ones. Which suggsests that the only people buying into blu-ray are still the very early adopters. The tech nuts and movie nuts.
Them and the people who own PS3s.
