DanneSandin said:
| MikeRox said:
I think the big difference between Wii U and Vita with digital sales, besides the cross buy aspect etc. is that Wii U's big titles are all physical releases, whilst a lot of the Vita's software is digital exclusive.
Sony didn't lose money on Vita sales at launch though. I'm pretty sure the figures showed that they were selling units around break even (definitely break even once a memory card was bought) and they didn't do any price cuts in the first year despite the lacklustre sales so it was clear they had decided to make profit margins key through the Vita. Also the R&D was part of the PS4 development which means this will also have been lower than the Wii U's.
I appreciate that first party software brings in more money, however you also have development costs for it whilst all the 3rd party software coming out on Vita is pure royalties and physical has much higher retailer and wholesale cuts + distribution to chuck into the mix whilst digital again, they just get 30% of every sale without putting a penny in themselves.
Obviously we'll probably never actually know so this is all speculation, but I do think the Vita will end it's life having generated more profit than the Wii U :)
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It's a shame that we don't know the digital sales ratio for Wii U; I figure it has to be somewhat high concidering the vitual console and things like that, but probably not as high as 48%.
They didn't? I seem to remember there being a lot of talk about that... Maybe I remember it wrong.
Yes, 1st party games cost a lot more to develop for the console manufactorer, but Nintendo makes pretty cheap games, compared to mant others out there.
I guess we just have to agree to disagree =)
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Indeed, though I'd love for Nintendo/Sony to confirm the answer one day. This really is the point some people on here really need to understand though. Neither of us know's who is right, all we can do is say our opinion. There are no facts right now to back either opinion. People just need to be more mature.
