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papflesje on 22 April 2009
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mjc2021 said:
papflesje said:
Nice for the 360, but isn't that a bit painful for Resident Evil 5? Or are gaming companies getting a slice of the action in Canada for the rentals? Because I can't imagine a majority of these gamers actually buying the title :-/

I'm sure the developers/publishers get a cut for each rental. If you look at the money generated for movies on occasion they will also mention rental profits.

Here's a quote from Wikipeda in regards to Spiderman 3.

"In the United States, the film grossed more than $121 million on DVD sales in 18 weeks.[99] It also grossed more than $43.76 million on DVD/Home Video Rentals in 11 weeks.[100] However, the DVD sales results of this film didn't meet industry expectations."

 

 

Well, video rentals is an entirely different issue since there are specific video rental copies out there which cost a heck of a lot more so that the industry gets its cut as well.

Over here, rentals for video games have been banned because the industry complained that retailers get all the profit from that while technically the distributor only sold 1 copy (which gets used over and over again with rentals). So I actually doubt that the publishers / developers even see a penny from this (aside from the initial sale). Anyone from Canada who can confirm whether rentals go to the developers too?