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I wonder, if you offset the losses of the Playstation 3 group at Sony with the gains of winning the format war, if Sony came out ahead after all.

And of course, for anyone who missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWfmRdOmJ0




I assume Sony planned on eventually breaking even on the PS3 with game sales alone, since that's a typical strategy for console hardware. The real question is, how much money did they pay Netflix and other groups to ensure victory for Blu Ray, and will that be worth it to them? Honestly, at this point they'd probably be willing to bankrupt themselves to finally win a format war!




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