Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - Feb 15th-21st 2016

[MikeRox]

tbone51 said:

OneKartVita said:

But it means more money for 3Rd parties.  Probably why Playstation gets better support. 

 

OT: PlayStation has about 2/3rds of the pie and it's seriously dominating the software.  Not a bad week at all.  

 

2DS release next week could push the DS up above 100k? Are we expecting that? 

Not necessarily. Look at some of the huge sellers on 3ds. That said the argument is Sony vs nintendo in profits. Nintendo wins by a huge margin, even third party companies make more money (Japan only) 

 

Profits weren't brought into it. Revenue was. That revenue being spread over a wider net of companies merely further increases the attraction of PlayStation platforms to 3rd parties.

 

Nobody knows how much profit is made on individual game sales. Yes Nintendo get more from a first party title, but they also have to pay money to develop and market that title. On 3rd party releases they just get a cut of each sale with no investment and no risk on poorer selling releases.