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Originally Posted by candyflip
All Bluray manufacturing will be now handled by Toshiba, as Sony has sold (or is in the process, rather) the Bluray factory. Sony also sold PS3 chip production facilities to Toshiba. Seems to make sense why they'd essentially give up without much of a fight. I don't think Microsoft will have any problem dealing with Toshiba.  |
I think you are confused. Sony sold the factory that makes the cell processor chips. That doesn't have anything to do with blu-ray.
"Sony agreed to sell it microchip processing facilities in western Japan for approximately $835M USD. These facilities currently produce Cell processors and RSX graphic chips. Toshiba will enter the joint venture with Sony on April 1, 2008. "
Also that doesn't mean MS wouldn't have to pay a royality to the blu-ray consortium which Sony is a part of. See if you wanted to start a company that made blu-ray players you have to pay a royalty to the people that own the patents. Sony is one of those people. So yes MS would have to pay Sony a royalty to have a blu-ray add-on.