| EricHiggin said: Hardware isn't supposed to be a money maker. That's the way it's always been in the console industry. You also have to take inflation into account when your talking about PS3 and PS4 cost to design and manufacture. GTA isn't the only thing that comes with that $10 bil. There's 20+ games that come with that deal. It's estimated that GTAV cost around $250 mil from start to finish. RDR2 is estimated to be between $250 mil and $500 mil. To make 20 similar AAA games from scratch, with the same input costs to compete, would cost at least $5 bil, not to mention all the work to make that happen, which would be A LOT. Meanwhile, PS would be able to sit back and let T2 bring in big money, while MS will be doing everything possible to scrape what they can away from those already established franchises. If GTA6 costs $500 mil, then MS would probably have to spend $750 mil just to stand a chance in competing with it, especially in marketing. You also have to consider, how much MS has been making off T2 titles, on XB and PC, and all of that will be gone if SNY were to make them exclusive to the PS brand. |
Of course Hardware isnt meant to make the bulk of the money. So the chart is not exactly a good example here. RnD eats up alot of the net sales profits. Its why MS care more about the software side of things.
Sure Sony gains access to 20 other games, however alot of them are not industry leading games and wont be making its money back on the purchase. If games like GTA get locked behind a paywall than why cant MS invest in there own GTA? It will cost 1/10 of the price and they wont have the burden of owning a big studio to do so, also the market will welcome it as its the only way to play a GTA game if they game on other platforms so T2 will be opening up there own competition except this time it will be competing with a game thats on majority of platforms. Its Possible.
Also owning a buisness isnt as easy as purchasing and sitting back. There is alot more involved plus a bunch more staff to pay and manage. It could work but it can also be a huge waste of cash leaving Sony weaker against competitors like Samsung.
