PS3 grabs 20%+ of the market !

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carlos710 said:

Yojimbo said:
carlos710: What PS3 games have failed to make profit? Lair is the only on in my mind and it deserved it.

http://vgchartz.com/games/index.php?name=&console=PS3&publisher=&genre=&keyword=&order=Sales

 

Try to guess which ones.

 

Hint: Most games under 500k (ports under 250k)

 I wrote a post earlier this week about how much games cost to make. I have read that most "Average"(R&C/Uncharted I believe are above average titles) PS3 and 360 titles cost average $ 15 million(this data from a recent BBC article) to make. If you include marketing, that is a whole different animal. Game developers make roughly $15-$20 off of each copy sold from most places I researched. Even at a high profit return(assume the Dev gets $20 per game) it would average for a game to sell 750k (if they have NO marketing what so ever) to break even. The 500k number gets thrown around but I havent seen much evidence backing it up.

 There are a lot of games losing money at the moment for the PS3/XBOX platform, but they will turn a profit in time. If you notice games are taking a lot longer to drop in price now a days, most likely due to their profit turning timetable bueing much longer.