Louie on 24 January 2009
| RVDondaPC said: You will never know the profit from a video game. Never ever. So no we shouldn't be looking at profit, because well. We'd be looking at nothing. |
Yeah sure... why using our head, right? I never said we should look at the profits from a single game but revenue is just silly to measure the success of a developer on a platform. Again, DS games are 40 Euro so they make 20 Euro less revenue from a DS game. Does that mean the games made them less money than the ones on the PS3?
And if the Wii accounts for 15% of the revenue, the games are cheaper at retail than PS3 / 360 games and the production costs are less, then it is valid to argue that they made just as much profit from the Wii.
Of course you have to look at profit and while you can't get exact figures there surely are some indicators if a developer made money on a platform or not.
