Opinion: vita crossbuy change

[dallas]

RolStoppable said:

theprof00 said:
Be cause i know it will eventually come up, they would not actually be losing money and could even charge slightly less considering two purchases.
Consider the industry marketplace:
A game is sold to gamestop for ten dollars or so less than retail. Of the profit, another 10-15 goes to the platform manufacturer; aka sony ms ninty.
Shipping and packaging is another 3 or so.
So in the grand scheme of things the revenue by a dev for one ps3 game and one vita game is:
60-(10-15 retailer)-(10-15 console owner)-(3-5 associated costs)
And
40or50 - 10to15 - 10to15- 3-5
For a total negative loss of between 46-70 of between 100-110 revenue.
Conversely, a bundle would have loss of between 23-35 of 75-80 revenue.
In both cases they will make just about the same amount give or take a couple bucks.

I don't want to get into your phone maths, because the important point is this: Third parties won't see it that way, rather they see it as giving one copy of the game away for half the price they want to charge for it.

You and your maths rol.  Europeans are funny.