| Silver-Tiger said: I HIGHLY doubt the deal came out good for MS.... The sales of Liberty City Stories are at 1.2 million. Let's just say 800.000 more people downloaded Episodes, Lost and the Damned and/or Ballad of Gay Tony. They all paid 40 bucks for it, right? That's approx. 2 million sold copies. That's makes a revnue of 80 million dollars. Let's just say MS gets the HUGE amount of 50% of the revenue (The number is way too high, no way MS would get 50% of the share, but just let take that example). That means MS still lost 10 million dollars with the deal. Of course you could include the sales of the Xbox 360's that sold instead of a PS3, maybe then MS would have made money from the deal, but MS in no way got that much share of the sales of Liberty City Stories. So I guess MS made a huge mistake with the deal. |
You should read my post, and the one below yours which I will repaste here.
"The 50 million was a loan, Rockstar had to pay MS back for the whole thing. The investment was clearly worth it since the 360 version outsold the PS3 version of GTA4, one of if not the most powerful brand Sony had last gen as a timed exclusive and a game that was considered to be associated with the playstation name.
Also your last statement is stupid. There have been so many games going multiplatform this gen that I could say the same thing about any 3rd party PS3 exclusive. Since FF13, Tekken, Assassins Creed and countless other PS3 exclusives went multiplatform then that must mean that FFvs13 and MGS4 are also going to go multiplatform! See how stupid that sounds?"
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