Kasz216 on 24 February 2008
| Ail said: Most people on this thread forget one thing. Naughty Dog developed the game but they are not a distributor. Sony distributed the game and the distributor is the one in charge of marketing and advertiser ( you pay the distributor a fee and they like actually do something for that fee..). What that means is that Naughty Dog cut per game sold is probably smaller than the 24$ or so that some have been speculating due to distributors costs but they did not have to cover advertising fees... |
Assuming the 20 million is all that it cost them and Sony took care of everything else in a relationship like this the developer i believe is likely to get around 40% of that $24.
1.25M X $9.60 = 12 Million Dollars... I think? If that was right they'd be at a loss.
Edit: This seems about right, as Gabe Newell seems to suggest that developers make about 7 dollars per game sold through the retail channel. Though maybe he was downplaying profits because of Steam. 7 seems like an odd number to use though if that were the case.
