Syndicated columnist Don Lindich is reporting that Sony, the leader backer of Blu-ray, recently paid Fox and Warner Bros. to support the high-def format. Lindich says Fox was ready to jump ship and support HD DVD until Sony kicked in with the money. At that point, Warner decided to take a payoff as well.
Lindich quotes "sources" for his report without naming them or even characterizing them from coming from a specific unit.
I will not challenge his report -- it may even be true. But I have to point out that Lindich, a longtime HD DVD booster, also reported less than two weeks before the Consumer Electronics Show that Warner Bros. would attend HD DVD's big media event at the Las Vegas conference.
The columnist said HD DVD's attendance was evidence that Warner would not shed its neutrality in the race and support Blu-ray. (This reporter, and a few others, predicted that Warner would endorse Blu-ray.)
As we now know, Warner not only did not attend the HD DVD event -- but the event was cancelled 48 hours prior because Warner announced it had...decided to endorse Blu-ray.
Lindich was wrong about the HD DVD event. Spectacularly wrong.
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.
Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
He is a spectacular idiot. "Sources", lol
"Lindich quotes "sources" for his report without naming them or even characterizing them from coming from a specific unit."
"I will not challenge his report -- it may even be true. "
Well, you just did! And very well done indeed.
Warners owns 50% of the movie revenues in 2007 and thats worth around 17 billion dollars.
Geez these lame article spring up every now and then.
You can see the Blu Ray uptake patterns in Japan and europe. Why would someone stick to a losing format?
The Blu Ray gave DVD a real scare in 2007 Japan even at a very high price range.
can you even imagine what happens in 2008?
Who gives a fuk about this right now. Wasn't Paramount paid for the same reasons to HD-DVD?
Go outside and start getting a life...
warner got no money, they couldn't lie about śomething about that
Lindich is the only member of the media who wasn't payed off by Sony in the whole hd formt war, and the only one speaking the truth. They paid millions to Warner to drop hddvd, and even still they are going to produce movies for the format for months to come. With the lower prices of the stand alone players it's a matter of time until they try to get out of this deal.