Squilliam on 14 December 2008
| numonex said: What about the losses Sony has incurred on PS3 hardware up to now this generation? I would like to see someone provide data on how much is lost or made per PS3 console sold. |
Who knows? Anyway they can still lose money even if they more than break even on hardware sales. Much of the losses incurred recently are likely to be from PSN and their massive 1st party software development overhead. Luckily much of that software is going to come to fruition next year.
Guerilla Games: 130 staff
Naughty Dog: 85 staff
Polyphony Digital: 200+?
SCE Liverpool: 100+
Just those 4 studios total ~550 employees. The cost per chair at a development studio is roughly 100k a year, so therefore between those 4 developers it would cost them more than $55,000,000 if you add building expenses etc to the mix per year. They have many more studios than that even, see?
Tease.
