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Deneidez said: Take2 losses say hi! , http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/take-two-losses-climb-to-USD50-million , looks like its was very profitable to make GTA 4. I predict that they will make lots of dlc for GTA 4, because alone its not really making enough profit. |
The only two profitable quarters Take-Two has in the past 2 years were the quarter in which GTA4 was relased and the following quarter. I think it's safe to say that with most games, the revenue stream is almost always front loaded. GTA accounted for nearly 50% of the revenue for the entire year in 2008...how many games did Take-Two release overall? You really should take a look at Take-Two's 10-K and 10-Q before you slam the impact that the game had on the company. Without GTA4 the company would have had 8 out of 8 quarters in the red as opposed to 6 out of 8.
I'm not sure why one would expect one game to make a large publisher profitable for more than a six month period in which most of the sales for that particular game occur. The company has a lot of issues to deal with that detrimentally impact their bottom line...GTA is not one of those issues. I guess it's easy to say something "is not really making enough profit" when you do absolutely no looking into the numbers at all though.
