A few weeks old article, but I hadn't seen it before. Seems like a reasonable analysis. Though I'm sure Sony was thinking originally that they would have sold about twice as many PS3s as they have. I recall the 6 million by March 2008 comments.

Note the VGCharts reference and the obligatory negative comment about it.

http://ce.seekingalpha.com/article/40949

Edit:  Link should be working now.

Link wasnt working for me....

I wonder how much money Sony makes on each Blu-ray disc sold? Any ideas?

Retro Gamer isn't a big fan of this place, looks like. I've noticed that this site doesn't have the best reputation. Why is that?

Maybe because some stupid journalists and fanboys can't tell the difference between sold to consumer and sold to retail numbers, and therefore started spreading the rumour that this site is not accurate? Wouldn't surprise me.

Nice to see VG Chartz was mentioned, now I'm getting so sick and tired of reading these analysts crap, over it, never again will I read another!!

Not much ...

I would suspect that licencing fees on Blu-Ray would be similar to those on DVD which would probably be (something like) $1 or $2 per disc and $10 per player/recorder; on top of this Sony doesn't fully own the format so these revinues would be split across all stakeholders in the format and Sony would probably end up with less than $0.50 per disc sold.

Sony's lost revinues from the PS3 will not be recovered in their gained revinues from Blu-Ray.

 If this were true, then I doubt there would be such a format battle.  Everyone would have agreed on a single next gen DVD format and things would be alot farther along by now.  I would have to think there is alot more money at stake than you seem to think.

I think Sony actually owns Blu-Ray.. they invented the product.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/sonyhistory-l.html see 2003

Also if Blu Ray becomes the dominant format then it will produced in the BILLIONS! So even if Sony only makes $1 on each disc they'll be making a ton of cash.

Sony doesnt own blu-ray 100%, but owns most of it.