Heavy Rain cost €16.7 million to make and made Sony "more than €100 million"

[Ail]

SnakeDrake said:

Ail said:
Proof that being in the industry does not necessary means you know what you are talking about....

Publisher gets roughly 50% of retail sales cost.
So if the game sold 2 million copies and each copy sold for 50 euros ( close to the reality if you average us and euro price of each copy)., the publisher got in the end 50 million euros, not 100 millions......

So the rest goes to the developer?

The rest goes to retailer and distribution channel...

it's pretty standard for most of the stuff sold at retailers these days.

You buy a hardcover for 25$, the publisher gets 12.50$.

You buy a comic book for 3.99$, the publisher gets 1.90$.

 

The main areas where it isn't 50% is stuff like cars ( where the car seller gets less, but he can make money on the side with used car and servicin) and cloths where it is even more ( because there is a lot of unsold products that have to be sold at very low price)