How much is made per game sold?

[CrashMan]

Well it depends on how the game is published. 1st party titles naturally make more money per unit sold as there are no license fees and no publisher to take a chunk out.

However, for 3rd party developers that go through outside publishers probably get even less than the stat you provided as they have to pay for licensing, retailers get a chunk, publishers get a big chunk, and they get what is left.

This is one of the things I have said is going to be a huge hurdle for the PS3. Either the budgets are going to need to be huge (resulting in many more sales for the games to be profitable,) they will need to cut content or make very short games (to cut down on development costs,) lose 3rd party exclusives (as it costs a LOT less to port than to develop from scratch) or all three.

This is the nature of moving in to HD game as just graphical elements (textures, models, MOCAP, etc) take MUCH longer to develop and cost much more, plus gamers demand much more advanced programming from the machines (advanced physics, IK, AI, etc,) which also takes more time and money, causing development teams to grow.

This is why 360 and PS3 games are 60 dollars (standard,) just think of how little money would go to developers if they stayed at $50...