| Carl2291 said: Lets go for it, zero. Stipulations? |
Hey Carl, could not find your other post so ill post here. Numbers wise just look at Ubisoft's last earnings report, it tells you everything you need to know about Wii U profitability (even in guesstimation).
Last Quarter (from October to December 31) Ubisoft had total sales of 520 million Euors (720 million dollars) the Wii U account for 2% of those total sales which comes to 10.4 Million Euros (14 Million dollars)
Including the previous catalog, the Wii U only had the new releases of Assassin's Creed 4 and Just Dance 2014. So we know at a maximum the Wii U contributed 10.4 million Euros of profit if there were 0 expenses related to the Wii U versions of games (profit = Revenue (sales) - expenses)
But come on we cannot be that nieve...
Expenses:
Royalities: Ubisoft has to pay Nintendo royalities for the published games...doesnt come free.
Shipping: Game companies sell to 3rd party representatives who then sell to retailers, these games did not move themselves...
Packaging: The cost to create boxes for the Wii U games were not free
The game itself: Im sure the cost to make these games, even the Wii U versions were not 0. The ending credits are full of people, these people did not work for just creative freedom.
Seems to be chipping away at that 10m total pretty quickly...
