That's where Toshiba messed up, they didn't pay ENOUGH money to those people to sway them like Sony did. Sadly in the end it was who had the bigger pocketbook who won this..
Sony had to go all out since Sony had more at stake in the war than Toshiba. Sony has lost majority of the casual gaming market to Nintendo and a big share of the hard core gamer market to Microsoft since the days of PS2 dominance. If Sony lost the war it would have been a double loss since they could not take the blu-ray out of the PS3. To have blu-ray only for gaming is not worth the cost (at least for now with its current pricing).
Put some millions up yourself or just please give the cut & paste a rest. It's all been said and done, no need to go over old ground like a spurned lover.
toshiba was already loosing money on every player and still feeling the hurt of paying off various studios, make no mistake, if it was about payoffs toshiba is in no way able to match the power of the entire blu-ray disc association. payofs are bad for the bottom line, short sighted, and if it's not showing that it works (it didn't get hddvd ahead even once last year) it's stupid to keep doing it. paramount took the money because it wanted to be red anyway, plain and simple.
that aside i don't think the loss was about payoffs, it was about warner, harry potter, and the fact that no matter what happened, blu dominated sales for all of 07, 2:1, and the war was keeping some people from jumping in (from spending their money). what, was toshiba supposed to payoff warner? freakin' WARNER BROTHERS! their pockets wern't that deep. and while i'm sure those execs tried to think of every viable solution in the book (even payoffs, free player givaways, etc,....)toshiba even said it their selves, it didn't make good busnes sense to continue the war.
And that's a surprise to you? Or you think it's not about money? The Dreamworks CEO is a moron and when his revenue starts to drop because he won't release any HD format disks (Blu Ray!) he'll eat his ego and release all his movies on Blu Ray.
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Gil @ Feb 27th 2008 8:20AM
That's where Toshiba messed up, they didn't pay ENOUGH money to those people to sway them like Sony did. Sadly in the end it was who had the bigger pocketbook who won this..
rg23 @ Feb 27th 2008 8:58AM
Sony had to go all out since Sony had more at stake in the war than Toshiba. Sony has lost majority of the casual gaming market to Nintendo and a big share of the hard core gamer market to Microsoft since the days of PS2 dominance. If Sony lost the war it would have been a double loss since they could not take the blu-ray out of the PS3. To have blu-ray only for gaming is not worth the cost (at least for now with its current pricing).
p @ Feb 27th 2008 9:07AM
Put some millions up yourself or just please give the cut & paste a rest. It's all been said and done, no need to go over old ground like a spurned lover.
alienclays @ Feb 27th 2008 9:21AM
toshiba was already loosing money on every player and still feeling the hurt of paying off various studios, make no mistake, if it was about payoffs toshiba is in no way able to match the power of the entire blu-ray disc association. payofs are bad for the bottom line, short sighted, and if it's not showing that it works (it didn't get hddvd ahead even once last year) it's stupid to keep doing it. paramount took the money because it wanted to be red anyway, plain and simple.
that aside i don't think the loss was about payoffs, it was about warner, harry potter, and the fact that no matter what happened, blu dominated sales for all of 07, 2:1, and the war was keeping some people from jumping in (from spending their money). what, was toshiba supposed to payoff warner? freakin' WARNER BROTHERS! their pockets wern't that deep. and while i'm sure those execs tried to think of every viable solution in the book (even payoffs, free player givaways, etc,....)toshiba even said it their selves, it didn't make good busnes sense to continue the war.
MacGuru @ Feb 28th 2008 10:32PM
And that's a surprise to you? Or you think it's not about money? The Dreamworks CEO is a moron and when his revenue starts to drop because he won't release any HD format disks (Blu Ray!) he'll eat his ego and release all his movies on Blu Ray.