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Originally Posted by afa
Personally, I think HD-DVD would have lost the format war anyway, payoff or no payoff. Even when the competition started, and before HD-DVD/Blu-ray players came on the market, I had expected Sony to win out.
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Agreed. But just one little clarification, which started this whole mess.
There was no "payoff." They gave free advertising via linked PS3 ads and whatnot, but they did not give studios any money directly (the payoff is what
Toshiba did, not Sony). This is, again, according to
Forbes, who quoted Sony, as cited in my previous post.
Now if we could just get them to link the Reader with PS3 ads!
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Firstly, Sony owns studios like Columbia under its Sony Pictures umbrella. They are also part owners of MGM. That already means that a fair number of movies/TV shows would use Blu-ray and not HD-DVD.
Second, there is the simple fact that Sony decided to include Blu-ray in the PS3. Even if the console ended up only being a third as successful as its predecessor, that would still mean that there were at least 40 million customers with a Blu-ray player at home, giving the format a significant advantage. Blu-ray was, simply, a safer bet.
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Agreed on this too. And according to either the
Forbes or
Variety article I cited, the PS3 did end up being a deciding factor for studios.
-Pie