The business model of game consoles, ever since the days of Atari, is to sell the hardware at a loss and make it back on the games. For the last two, and next generation, the console makers have just been buying hardware from IBM, Nvidia and AMD. Telling that both Microsoft and Sony have essentially the same console hardware.
The console is just a means for makers to sell and license games, as well as the money they get from subscriptions (PSN/XBL).
10% market share is not huge. Samsung is 3x bigger, LG is consistently bigger.
Sony doesn't make any panels. Sony's display operation, which I don't believe ever made large-format panels, was spun off as Japan Display, which is on the verge of bankruptcy if not due to orders by exactly one customer: Apple.
Sony TVs don't even include Sony chips anymore, they're Mediatek platforms. Sony's essentially buying chips, buying panels, and slapping them into a box.
Blu-Ray is not a Sony product. It was developed by a consortium of major companies, including Hitachi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, etc. under the Blu-Ray Disc Association. Sony was seen the most prominent member because it threw its movie studios behind the format, but Philips was just as important in development.
In fact, when the standard was being developed, the spec and IP were not managed by Sony, it was managed by Philips.
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