@ spankey
Sure!

Bascially that graph is the top 25 selling products.

You take the top 25 DVDs and the top 25 BR movies and compare the salesranks among all movies. You can see that the top 25 DVD movies are pretty near the top 25 total movies. BRs top 25 products are at about the 60-75 area, so, as far as the top 25 movies at any given time, DVD outsells BR 3-1. Which is actually a very very good figure for BR seeing as how BR is usually 5-10$ more expensive.

Now, I know what you are thinking. "Well what about those products between 30 and 60-75, where are those?"

Other graphs on the site show the top 10, top 50, top 100, top 1000 and pricing.
The products from 1-60 are probably DVD movies, because otherwise BR would have been higher up in the previously posted graph.

Anyway, as you can see from the trends, if you look at all the graphs you see something like a scaled slope for BR, where the top 25 are really high up, the gap in the top 50 are farther apart, and so on. What this means is that BR simply does not have as many movies on the market as DVD. As more and more movies are released, and more and more people invest in BR technology, you will see each graph getting tighter and tighter until they switch positions and DVD starts falling as companies make fewer and fewer DVDs.

Hope that was helpful :)

Thx for the link, this one is a little less.. fanboyish.

Sony only own a license for the Spiderman movie, Marvel still own the character and can license it to whoever they want to make game based on him . Except, obviously, if Marvel is owned by Sony (is it?). That go for Iron Man and X-Men too. Same thing for Resident Evil, owned by Capcom but licensed to Sony so they can make movie based on it until the license expire(and only movie, not game). In neither of these case do Sony have any say in where the game based on these properties go. Ghostbuster's on the other hand, they should but I am not sure if SCE is interested in making movie based game or if it have any say as to what Sony Picture do with the game license.

Certainly does help, thanks!

wow, It seems to be a bit rosier for BR than I initially thought...

Cool

How will it affect the movie industry and the gaming industry?

there fixed your post

Sony should be doing the opposite of adding. I think this is rather foolish, especially right now. Sony should be managing its resources, cutting off dead weight, and figuring out how to get back its lost marketshare in each industry.

You do know how mergers work right? one party allows the other party to buy all their assets with an agreement that members of the old company can be put on the board of directors or in high executive positions. Some times this can lead to a brand new company like Activision Blizzard but most of the time it doesn't.

So while Viacom is sending Paramount out to pasture while making tons of cash in the process, Paramount's higher ups will become Sony's higher ups.

Adding Paramount's line up to Sony's will pretty much put Sony on top of the movie industry. There is no lose in this merger. Sony is bound to increase the company's networth while making billions more in box office and movie sales.