Well first of all. thank god they are not jumping up in price like $10.
now on to apple and so on games. It takes 2 seconds to realize that lets say a $2 is 100% profit. Now it sells great or amazing or whatever you want to consider 1 million sales.
That is at max $2 million revenue, with getting 100% and not having that $2 be split between whoever may be.
Now on to sony or nintendo. Nintendo for sake of topic. a 3rd party sells a game for $35, and hell lets say they only get $10 per game. i don't know what % of each game sale the developer gets but lowballed it for sake of argument. now at $10, they ONLY need to sell 200,000 to reach that same $2 million revenue.
200,000 is a way more easy figure to reach than 1 million. Now yes the development costs will be higher for 3DS than for a phone game as well.
