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Darc Requiem on 24 March 2009
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JamesCizuz said:
Darc Requiem said:
theprof00 said:
One thing we aren't taking into account is the licensing fees involved.
If 360 charges 100k and sony charges 5k then there's 95k you're saving with sony right?
Now we just need those numbers to each make or break this case.

 

Are you talking about the per unit licensing fees? I know that last generation Sony and Nintendo charged $10 per game and MS charged $7.

 

There is no set rate for licensing fees. That is how I know you are lying. It depends on game type, to company etc. 3rd party pay more, second and first would pay less(obviously).

 

However another reason I know you are lying is because MS charges more on average, per game, for licensing, especially on XBLA.

There is a standard rate. Now for exclusivity licensing fees maybe reduced or waived all together. First and Second parties don't pay licensing fees. First party games are from company that owns the platform, why would they charge themselves? Second party games are exclusive with the games developer and the first party console maker splitting the profits. Since the console maker is usually the publisher their are no licensing fees. If the Second party was paying licensing fee, where would the make their money. They'd end up using most of their profit share to pay the console maker licensing fees.

I don't know what the charges are for the current generation, but MS had the lowest licensing fees during the last generation. It's part of the reason, along with money hats, that X-box had third party support rivaling the PS2's with 1/6 the userbase. It's also a major reason that despite similar sales Nintendo made money off of the Gamecube and Microsoft lost billions on the X-box.