tuoyo said:
dbot said:
tuoyo said:
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?
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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.
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You don't think Konami has made money after shipping 3 million plus units of this game in a month?
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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.
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You realize retailers make practically nothing on software. I don't remember the exact number, and can't find the link, but Sony recently said in an interview they make about $30-40 on their games. Konami is the developer and publisher, and Sony definitely doesn't take a $20-30 cut on each third party game. Konami gets way more than $10 per copy. Not to mention all the LE copies that cost $85+.
