| 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 probably do some research before you make up figures. The Lost and Damned was confirmed to have sold over a million DLC just a few months after release. Theres no telling how much it has sold now. The Ballad of Gay Tony which has been said to be the better of two DLC's has no figures announced yet but you can pretty much bet on it selling another million DLC at the least. Also take into account that Episodes from Liberty City is a pretty new release and will probably sell 2 million copies then we can see how off your figures are.
And this is all the while not taking into account that the 50 million was a loan that Rockstar had to pay back so in essence MS lost nothing.
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