"It's highly unlikely that you'll hear the real story because Sony did so many anti-trust illegal things that the REAL story won't be available ever because they would be legally responsible."
Nfinity, you are quite sad. It is clear to just about everybody that Blu-Ray (Sony) won the format war because of the Playstation 3. With the success of the PS2, it was clear that even at $400, $500, or $600, the PS3 was going to move millions of units, which made it very easy for PS3 sales to be about 4 to 5 times stand-alone HD DVD sales. So even with PS3 owners having a lower attach rate (buying about a quarter as many Blu-Ray discs as their HD DVD counterparts), the sheer number of PS3's sold enable Blu-Ray to sell more discs in all 52 weeks of 2007 (and Blu-Ray discs outsold HD DVD's by about a 2:1 margin for the entire year of 2007).
If you want to call it an anti-trust illegal thing that they did then fine, I'm not going to argue you about legal semantics that I am not entirely sure of (Sony also owns a movie studio which produced such hits as Spiderman) -- however I doubt you will find a lawyer that will take your case (unless you are paying him out of pocket). Sony may own a horizontal and/or vertical monopoly, but I don't think you will too many people who are going to get up in arms about it. But don't act like what they did wasn't out in the open.
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Leonardo DiCrapio @ Jul 29th 2008 11:37AM
"It's highly unlikely that you'll hear the real story because Sony did so many anti-trust illegal things that the REAL story won't be available ever because they would be legally responsible."
Nfinity, you are quite sad. It is clear to just about everybody that Blu-Ray (Sony) won the format war because of the Playstation 3. With the success of the PS2, it was clear that even at $400, $500, or $600, the PS3 was going to move millions of units, which made it very easy for PS3 sales to be about 4 to 5 times stand-alone HD DVD sales. So even with PS3 owners having a lower attach rate (buying about a quarter as many Blu-Ray discs as their HD DVD counterparts), the sheer number of PS3's sold enable Blu-Ray to sell more discs in all 52 weeks of 2007 (and Blu-Ray discs outsold HD DVD's by about a 2:1 margin for the entire year of 2007).
If you want to call it an anti-trust illegal thing that they did then fine, I'm not going to argue you about legal semantics that I am not entirely sure of (Sony also owns a movie studio which produced such hits as Spiderman) -- however I doubt you will find a lawyer that will take your case (unless you are paying him out of pocket). Sony may own a horizontal and/or vertical monopoly, but I don't think you will too many people who are going to get up in arms about it. But don't act like what they did wasn't out in the open.