Sony Aims Higher Than The Gaming Market

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 24, 2006 @03:11AM from the tomorrow-the-world dept.

Next Generation tries to take a look at what Sony is up to with the PS3, without going off on a rumour-filled tangent. Their thought? Sony is after something much bigger than the gaming market. From the article: "The big play is for the high definition DVD market, and in this context, an early launch, with small hardware numbers and threadbare games software support might just be a good move. This play potentially represents Sony's most important move in its entire history. Imagine; a royalty for Sony on every single DVD sold between 2006 and 2012 or thereabouts. No wonder Bill Gates hates Blu-ray."

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royalties by gEvil+(beta) · 2006-01-24 03:20 · Score: 5, Informative

Imagine; a royalty for Sony on every single DVD sold between 2006 and 2012 or thereabouts. No wonder Bill Gates hates Blu-ray.

You mean like what happened with the CD? (Sony and Philips receive royalty payments for CD-based media)

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Re:Sony's clueless about the media market by casualsax3 · 2006-01-24 03:37 · Score: 3, Informative

BetaMax saw HUGE success in the commercial world, MiniDisc is still incredibly strong in Japan with very high adoption rates, and UMD movies have been selling better than DVD movies first did, having the support of a number of major movie studios.