UK Charts - WEEK ENDING 10 December 2016

[TheGreatOther]

naruball said:

TheGreatOther said:

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.

Well, yeah, not saying Sony literally goes around funding games they know will suck and flop.

But they do seem inclined to fund a game they think will atleast do well critically even if it has a very small demographic that will want to buy the game.