| tuoyo said: 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?
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What are you even basing your numbers off of? We are basing our numbers off the pretty much accepted software designer revenue of games priced at $60, somewhere between $35-$45. Its not a first-party title, so Sony barely gets anything except the licensing fee, and you are seriously overestimating how much retailers get.
My friend who worked at Best Buy got things discounted to 5% above cost, which was great for cables, stereos, and TV's, but awful on things like CD's and video games, where he would save only a few dollars at the most.
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