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RVDondaPC on 25 January 2009
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Batman...WTF? said:
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darthdevidem01 said:

PS3 generates largest sales for UbiSoft
Posted on January 22, 2009 by Nick
 

Earlier last month, Take-Two, publishers of Bioshock and Grand Theft Auto, announced that the PS3 had been their biggest source of income, with 35% of their revenue coming from the platform. 

It seems this may becoming trend, as UbiSoft is reporting a similar story.  So far for the fiscal year of 2008, 21% of the publisher's sales have come from the PS3.  Of the three home consoles, that is the largest percent, with Microsoft's XBox 360 trailing at 20% and the Wii at 15%.  This is quite a mix up from the 2007 fiscal year, where the 360 actually had the highest amount of sales out of all platforms at 25%.

UbiSoft is expecting to meet their financial goals for the fiscal year of 2008, with Tom Clancy's HAWX releasing for the PS3, 360, and PC in the final quarter of the fiscal year.

http://www.ps3center.net/news/2191/ps3-generates-largest-sales-for-ubisoft/

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THis should put to rest terrible rumor's that have been going around & specualtions by several analysts that the PS3 would just be abandoned by 3rd parties!

FFXIII. Dragonquest. Monster Hunter. Countless others.

 

Only one of those games was abandoned by 3rd parties.

The point was Playstation lost 3 exclusives it should've had in the bag.

 

The point is that the PS3 is bringing in more revenue(and a good chance more profit) with less 3rd party exclusives AND a much smaller userbase. If you want to bring that up bring it up in a thread about sony fanboys boasting about their game catalogue, not a thread about 3rd party revenues. It only makes the PS3 look even better and third party developers moronic for even thinking of abandoning the console. 

@ Groucho I totally agree with you. It's pretty amazing and speaks volumes about the profitability from developing for the PS3 over other systems. 

Also no one has mentioned about game prices. I think I may have mentioned it before in previous threads, but XBOX 360 games seem to go on sale or have a price drop more often than PS3 games. Though the gap is closing compared to the first year the PS3 was out, when very rarely did a game go on sale. But I think the fact that PS3 owners on average would have a bigger wallet(it doesn't mean your poor if you have a 360 but at such a high price point for a PS3 a lot of the poorer gamers cant afford it) and game less frequently(atleast here in America) it let's Sony keep the game prices higher than that of the 360. And by having higher prices on average, you'd sell less games but bring in more revenue. Not necessarily more revenue than the 360, but more revenue than if they pursued a lower price point strategy. But in this case, also more revenue than the 360.