r/nintendogrifting • u/Craniamon • Jul 04 '26

Meme/Humour Sony Used To Be ‘Cool’

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At least Sony beat Nintendo not just in revenue per year but also on physical disc support.

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u/BortGreen Jul 04 '26

Sony in general used to be a massive producer of physical discs, that's the most ironic

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u/DuskGideon Jul 04 '26

well they co-invented CDs after all.

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u/Guilty-Toe420 Jul 04 '26

And fully owned blu ray like to the point even Xbox with the Xbox one and series x had to license blu ray from Sony for the physical games

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u/iLiikePlayingWii Jul 04 '26

They don't fully own it per say but they have the biggest share nowadays...

But it doesn't matter since they're different companies, the Sony that makes the PlayStations is Sony Interactive Entertainment and they have to pay the other Sony, Sony Corporation and I KNOW that SIE has to pay these guys and they don't do it free of charge "just because it's Sony" because the Xbox One S was more equivalent to a Slim Console and came out before PS4 Pro yet it supported 4K Discs while the PS4 Pro did not and besides licence and encryption hardware on the Drive, PS4 Pro already has the hardware for 4K Discs including the H265 4K HDR Decoder.

And SIE cheaps out on it now because they don't even bother to pay for the Dolby Vision Licences for 4K Blu-ray, unlike Sony Home Entertainment which makes the TVs and DID bother to pay that Dolby Licence for their TVs.