PSN Alone Generated More Revenue Than The Entirety of Nintendo, MicroSoft's Entire Gaming Division!

[ArchangelMadzz]

Ka-pi96 said:

ArchangelMadzz said:

They wouldn't count it as their own revenue. Revenue means income. Revenue is the income that they earn or receive and not the money they have to spend or pay out, the money they have to give activision is the payout and cannot be included in revenue.

Amazon for example in their revenue count the money they receive as a cut from their sellers. And they take away their wage budget and other operational costs for their profit.

They do earn or receive it though. You buy a $60 game from PSN and Sony receive $60, that's a fact. It doesn't matter that they have to pay out $40 (or whatever the actual amount is) to the publisher of the game after that, they still initially received $60.

I get that you see it that way, but it's not legally revenue when the money goes through them to be filtered off to another company. Steam's revenue reports are theirs and do not include the money that developers get. 

Think of it this way.

If they did it your way imagine how shit their profit margins in their reports would be if their earnings report showed they LOST $40 for every 3rd party game they sold. That's 100's of millions of loss every single quarter. That doesn't look good, and it's obvious that's not the way they do things.