MaxwellGT2000 said:
The same can be applied to those months PS3 were sold at a loss, they could have the entire pie, Sony still wasn't doing good business. So yeah revenue charts, in general, are some of the most useless data you could ever be given, only good to fan some console war flames. |
revenue data is quite literally useless to anyone but the publisher/manufacturer and it's only for their titles/products. It's like this Wii sells 1m software units at 50 while 360 does 1m units at 60, revenue from the Wii title is 50m dollars, the 360 title brings in 60m dollars and therefore a higher % on a pie chart like that, the only problem? If a title like that cost something like 45 million on the 360 and 11.25 million on Wii, after console makers get their cut, you count expenses like production of discs and shipment, the 360 title breaks even, and the Wii game came out making a mint.Revenue data is NOT useless! Effectively it tells us the magnitude of the market in question or the proportion of revenue going towards a specific console. So a developer looking at Gamasutra will see that they could either develop a Wii game and target ~30% of the revenue available on consoles or they could target the Xbox 360 and PS3 both for a slice of ~70% of the overall market. Beyond this the comparison gets even more skewed given the fact that many Wii games have to rely on licensed I.P. and a lower than $50 price point which means that they have to keep their fixed costs in check because the margins after Nintendo, third party I.P, retail margins, publishing expenses are taken into account are quite small. However on the other hand the margins on the Xbox 360 and PS3 games are much greater and newly developed I.P. can be sold relatively profitably and with higher margins comes the incentive to advertise and market the title because selling additional copies easily justifies advertisement.
Tease.
