What's the number a console needs to sell not to be a failure?

[JazzB1987]

Intrinsic said:

JazzB1987 said:

I also think its pretty funny that alof of companies that have games that sell 1-5m at max dare to say a system that sells 5-10m is a failure.
I mean there is more than 3x as many people that are willing to pay 3-6x the money for that "failing system" than there are people that want to buy the devs 60 dollar game. So whose product is a failure now huh?

Cause devs/publishers look at install bases differently than you do. A publisher usually doesn't expect more than 5-10% of the installed base of any platform to buy their game. So to them, if a console has an install base of around 30M worldwide, they won't expect more than 1.5M to 3M of that base to buy their game.

And yh, you sound bitter.

Why do so many PS360 titles sell below 1m or lets say below 8m (10% of 80m is 8m)?  And especially why do devs still make games then? If you are a smart dev you know that not every system is owned by a potential customer. Some people own more than 1 console. Then there is different age groups. Then there is people interested in different genres and some people even owning a system just to watch blurays (because e.g the PS3 was the best and cheapest bluray player in 2006/7). Also alot of people dont buy mediocre games at all and some wait for price drops or buy used games.  Expecting 10% to buy ones game is pretty dumb unless you are a prestige developer with only great games.

I am not bitter I am just making fun of some devs and I hate shareholders. They fuck up every single company. Everything gets worse because of parasites like them because they dont think "whats best for the company" "whats best for the customers" They just think "whats best for my wallet."  They just care about short term profit and ignore long term profit.
If I would be in charge of a country the first people I would send to a war would be them  (unarmed that is xD)