Konami's Q1 Profit up 50 percent, Thank you Solid Snake!

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dbot said:

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DMeisterJ said:

Here's a nice picture of how much Snake had to do with this profit.

So do people still want to believe that MGS4 will be a financial travesty and have to be ported to the XBOX 360 as well?

Did it occur to you that peharps the reason why profits were so low previously was because a lot of money was being sunk into development of this game?  It is wrong to think that everything MGS4 sells is pure profit.  It is profit in this quarter but it doesn't mean in previous accounting periods huge amounts of costs & expenses weren't incurred on this thereby reducing profits for those periods.  But now that there is no more development costs there would not be much costs attributed to the game other than minimal costs of packaging and shipping.  In fact I would be seriously suprised if what it has sold so far has already recouped all the money Konami put into it.

 

 

 You don't think Konami has made money after shipping 3 million plus units of this game in a month?

No why would I necessarily think that?  How much does Konami make from each game sold?  I would offer a sensible estimate of $10.  That's $30million to Konami.  Considering how long this game was in development and how expensive it generally is to make big games for PS3 it is very likely (in fact almost certain) this game cost more than $30m. 

 

Are you saying they make $10 net (revenue - cost), or they only receive $10 for each game sold?  Konami is the developer and publisher for this game. 

 

Okay so tell me then how much do you think it gets?  You do realise Sony and retailers have to take their cut.  Then there's cost of production, packaging, etc.  Maybe $10 is low but no way can it be much more than $20 otherwise Nintendo would be like the richest company in the world.  Are you confident that MGS4 cost less than $60m to develop, market and advertise?