Why is the Switch still not getting big games from 3rd parties? October edition

[DonFerrari]

potato_hamster said:

DonFerrari said:

Sure 5 USD per cart when selling 1M copies is 5M less profit. Now how much profit you make selling 0? Because I'm pretty certain GTA V would make more profit by releasing it.

$5 x 10 million copies -=  $50 million dollars. Can't afford to lose that profit margin.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/58516/gta-online-earned-1-09-billion-analyst-firm/index.html

What's that? GTA Online has made over $1.1 Billion as of 2017 on 80 million copies (at the time) of the game? That's nearly $14 per copy sold. I can't imagine how Rockstar could make up that $5 per copy in revenue. They'd definitely rather shelve a complete or near-complete copy of GTA V for Switch than eat a $5 hit on the profit margin on the front end. It'd be way more profitable to wait years for the cost to cartridge to decrease rather than try to make that up in GTA Online.

Makes sense.

Yep, calculate the cost of the development, lost revenue and apply that for 3 years and let's see if it was more or less than what they would lose having lower margins.