Shuhei Yoshida: Only Four Out of Ten PlayStation Games Make Money, but Sony Will Always Support Talent

[Mnementh]

DonFerrari said:

Mnementh said:
They always support talent? Liar! Sony didn't sponsor Bayonetta, and also not a new game from Platinum, like MS and Nintendo both did.

Nintendo customer support talent, they buy all the good games released from 3rd parties right?

And he is saying about 1st parties (which if you want to criticize quote the closed studios), useless jab there champ.

???

Well, you say Nintendo customers don't buy the games. But hey, why 6 out of 10 games on Sony-publishing don't make it back financially? Probably because Sony-customers buy games in millions and millions. Silly argument.

But that isn't the point to begin with. The 6 out of 10 will be mostly Indies that are published by Sony. As all three do similar in Indie-support, the figures will be similar for the other consoles. But the investments will not be high for Indies to begin with: a free devkit and no fees for digital publishing. Also put in the other games that are sales-failure. The Wonderful 101 comes to mind here. No, Yoshida wanted to simply spin the argument with this ridiculous 'always support talent'-statement.

And no, if he would talk about 1st-party it would be pointless. He probably means Sony-published games, but that means a lot of third-party that has Sony-publishing on Sony-platforms.