Activision Revenue for 2008 - MMORPG #1, PS #2, Wii #3

[saicho]

Ail said:

WiiStation360 said:

shams said:
Yeah, WoW is a serious cashcow. Imagine having 10m people paying you $100 each a year...

The only real competitor I can imagine to WoW would be a Pokemon MMORPG (and its a different demographic, so they can co-exist).

It would be interesting to see profits though - WoW would cost a metric-shitload to operate...

Total Operating costs for WoW from launch to last September was only $200M.

WoW is the video gaming's biggest cashcow ever.

 

That is misleading, those operating costs do not include any development cost.

Blizzard has a team of over 100 developers that have been working on WoW for now over 8 years ( actually I think the team is over 150 by now) and countless testers...

I remember last summer Activision CEO claiming that so far the total cost for Wow has been somewhere around 800 million $...

even if it cost 800 million, the net revenue last year for WoW is enough to cover it... and that's not counting any revenue from previous years.