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naruball on 12 December 2016
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TheGreatOther said:
naruball said:
Quite a drop for FF. Was hoping for a bit better performance.

The Last Guardian did pretty much what all of us expected from such a title, but it still sucks that uninspiring games like Fifa and COD get to beat it in its launch week.

Oh well, hopefully it does well enough to give Sony enough reason to keep funding such projects.

Sony woul probably keep funding such projects even if it was a huge flop.

According you Yoshida, only 4/10 games the fund make a profit and that's used to fund the other 6 they know won't be financially successful but are made for the love of gaming.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/07/04/shuhei-yoshida-only-four-out-of-ten-playstation-games-make-money-but-sony-will-always-support-talent/

 

This is why Sony's the best publisher out there by a long shot.

I could be 100% wrong about this, but they way I interpret it is, Sony funds certain projects (like Tearaway) that are not guaranteed hits (like Uncharted or God of War are), hoping that these games will turn a profit. Most of them (rougly 6/10 if Yoshida is to be believed) don't turn a profit, but some of them do. Little Big Planet must have been such a title. Thankfully for Sony it was a good investment.

I have serious doubts that Sony funds projects knowing full well that they will flop.  In the case of the Last Guardian, I think they saw no reason pulling the plug after spending so much money on it. They would have received backlash even from people with zero interest in the game.