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Ok so going back to your original post...
So it succeeded in winning a format war that has not brought in enough revenue to cover the cost of it's development and the losses inflicted by including inside the PS3. The PS3 wasn't the games console hit that it should have been because of BD cost burden in those early years, it cost Sony money to include but it also cost Sony a ton of revenue when software sales were far lower, licensing fee's were low and it plunged the company into the red. In essense it is winning the Champions League but being relegated from the Premier League and going into administration.
Ok, so you want to stick to BD. It won the war but it isn't winning, the revenue numbers have never hit predicitions and it isn't even proping Sony up, DVD has held on for far longer than expected and now streaming movie sales are showing exponential growth to the point where it is having a sizeable hit on Sony's BD licensing revenues, that will only get worse over the next few years.
So, maybe it is you who are missing the point. A win is only a win if you win.
You're all missing the point that the PS3 was a massive success because it achieved what it set out to do; win the HD format war.
So it succeeded in winning a format war that has not brought in enough revenue to cover the cost of it's development and the losses inflicted by including inside the PS3. The PS3 wasn't the games console hit that it should have been because of BD cost burden in those early years, it cost Sony money to include but it also cost Sony a ton of revenue when software sales were far lower, licensing fee's were low and it plunged the company into the red. In essense it is winning the Champions League but being relegated from the Premier League and going into administration.
Ok, so you want to stick to BD. It won the war but it isn't winning, the revenue numbers have never hit predicitions and it isn't even proping Sony up, DVD has held on for far longer than expected and now streaming movie sales are showing exponential growth to the point where it is having a sizeable hit on Sony's BD licensing revenues, that will only get worse over the next few years.
So, maybe it is you who are missing the point. A win is only a win if you win.