papflesje said:
It doesn't work like that, starcraft. |
On public forums, I find it is sensible to adopt a common sense approach to sourcing. On the first page of this thread, Username speculated that the Xbox 360 alone cost Microsoft $7 billion. He did so without a source and was, of course, blatantly incorrect. But because I applied common sense, it was clear he was wrong and therefore I did not ask him for a source.
In my case we are talking about the creation of a media standard. If it cost less than billions to develop, market and help to victory a media standard, we would see them come about FAR more often. OF course I cannot find specifics on the cost of developing Blu-Ray, as these are closely guarded Blu-Ray consortium secrets. But common sense tells us there is a reason manufacturors are not constantly putting out new media standards, and the reason is thta developing an advanced, managable, marketable, supported media format takes an AWFUL lot of money.
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