Platinum Games: “You’ll see us on PS4 eventually,” “Bayonetta didn’t sell what we wanted it to”

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ryuzaki57 said:

kowenicki said:
They may make some money on it if it due to the money paid to them for the exclusivity, but they pretty much killed any possibility of it becoming a successful franchise in the longer term.

Very short term of them. I guess they are financially desperate.

pretty much this

Besides, I've been wondering. How does an independant developer get its revenues? Does it receive a lump sum from the publisher, a percentage of the sales revenues or a combination of the two?

It generally depends on the studio.

For one like Platnium it's likely almost all upfront money with little to no percentage of sales.

 

Of course... game sales lead to getting better contracts and deals with a better backend.