Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/09/08 22:48

Big Daddy wrote:
> "boodybandit" <allaboutgamez@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>"TheGame" <n0n0n0n0n0@excite.com> wrote in message
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>>>Me thinks it was more about the $500 million sony gave WB than the
>>>number of PS3s sold...
>>
>>Link?
>
> I've heard now 500k, 750k, 800k, and 1.3 Billion(my personal favorite :-)
>
> I've HEARD all these numbers, but I've yet to see any source other than some
> blog (and in most cases like the above, not even that).

And so much more credible than Warner and New Line's OWN EXECS saying
"Two formats was confusing our consumers and slowing back sales."

> At least with the MS buyout rumor (and it could very well be that) the $ was
> consistent (500k) and the reports were coming from credible sites, if not
> straight out of the months of spokesmen.

And was also coming from the ACTUAL PEOPLE who'd gotten the money--
We wouldn't even have known the figure was $150M, if Jeffrey Katzenberg
hadn't sung like a stool-canary to the NYT.

What's so flat-out giggle-worthy about the "Sony bribe" theories, is the
puppy-dog desperation with which HD-DVD *wants* the other side to suffer
some terrible, humiliating crushing blow to their image too, and then
maybe customer sentiment will be magically equal again--
Even in the first weeks after the Bribe, the biggest HD defense was "Oh
yeah, well...Sony used to bribe people too!--What about all that money
the other companies took!"

....Methinks the fat lady doth protest too much. ;)

Derek Janssen
ejanss1@verizon.net

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