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

[Ail]

saicho said:

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.

 

I'm not saying it's not crazy profitable :)

I'm just putting in perspective the kind of investment a competitor would need to produce a comparable product...

Because at this point, lets face it, Wow is very polished...