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Kasz216 on 29 June 2008
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ssj12 said:
Kasz216 said:

It's not profitable... yet. As far as I know.

They spent too much trying to blow away HD-DVD....and if you include PS3 losses in the mix... (They count PS3's in the mix for Blu-ray players.)

It'll really depend. The Public really wasn't snapping up Blu-ray like everyone projected... the economy problems in the US aren't helping.

In a couple years we'll see Blu-ray may end up replacing DVD, it may be a Niche product or it may just be the next Laserdisc.

It's all up in the air currently.

Also actually the patents to CDs and DVDs were CRAZY profitable.

 

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/questex/hom153368MNH/#/14

 

see the graph

 

You do realize that graph includes all 6 million or so Europeon PS3's right? While the DVD number likely did not include PS2s?

Also it appears they are counting PS3 games as well when it comes to blue-ray revenue.

It's all a corporate shellgame. As much as you've seen Sony and Microsoft PR spin you think you'd know better.

Take out at least the 60% of people who don't use their PS3's for blu-ray (europe usually behind America in such matters) and it's well behind where DVD was (since the vast majority of blu-ray players are PS3s.