Microsoft and Sony are destroying their (and each other's) gaming business

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Kasz216 said:

Username2324 said

 

 

Bundling doesn't hurt the developer. Developers love it. Bundling hurts Sony. Or at least it does when they start bundling 3rd party games instead of first party games... because third party games are going to cost Sony more.

Or at least I think that's what NJ5 is trying to say.

Put it this way. Say sony gets... 10 dollars for every game sold or so. (They do have the highest liscensing cost of the big 3 to my knowedge.)

So they get 10 dollars for every copy of MGS3 sold.

Now say with the MGS3 bundle they are paying 30 dollars per copy of MGS3.

They make 40,000 bundled systems. MGS3 has to sell 120,000 copies just to break even on MGS software sales.

Now say Sony makes, 20 dollars on each first party game. It costs them about 5 dollars to make the game. So they're losing 5 dollars per bundle on that game.

For each 1st party game they sell it covers 4 bundled copies as far as breaking even.

 Like I said, please provide facts, not speculation.