BeElite said:
MoHasanie said:
How do you know? Including marketing costs, I doubt its profitable. Last year, Sony's game division reported a full year profit of just $18m. People said that the small profit was mainly because of Vita losses since the PS3 would have been very profitable by then. This year again, the division reported a loss of $78m. That loss is with PS plus subscirptions increasing substantially, PS4 reportedly being sold at a profit, and of course PS3 being sold at a profit. Since there would be very little research and development costs, the main culprit for the losses must be the Vita.
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Ohh is game development free now ? majority of their studios have been burning through millions in dev costs while they not announced anything yet.
For all their studios teams they only released two big titles, Killzone and Infamous. Tiny profits on hardware is not erasing massive development costs of World wide studios. They need to drop some big sellers to do that.
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The dev costs are offset by the revenue brought in through the release of new games. So although they are working on new games right now, Killzone and Infamous sales make enough money to cover those dev costs. Otherwise, according to your theory, the game division can never make profits until they stop making new games.
Killzone has sold 2.1m copies, Knack has crossed 1m, Infamous has also crossed 1m. I'm sure all those games are profitable.
