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Soundwave on 12 June 2024
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

Well obviously you have nothing else to say because you can't really argue the actual facts here. The Sony documents say what they say, you can't really argue it. 

The math breaks it down further, you can see exactly in the example I showed from their own data why they think that way too. So yeah, there isn't much to discuss here, the facts are right there (not my opinion either, that Sony saying all of that, Sony's own numbers and budgeting). 

I am just pointing out what was in the data leak, which frankly should have been a larger discussion here. 

He's not saying anything wrong, obviously sony wants to make more money and spider man 2 while looking great is not like it blows away the top game graphically and uses like 70% of the same map if i remember correctly. So i doubt it's the graphic its more about gaming budgets going crazy cause of inflation and no one wants to work. like  just go watch the xbox show case almost every freaking game is pushing graphics if what because of graphics budget were going crazy they would not be doing that.

 

No actually he/she is wrong, from the Sony data leak we can see what say ... a $500 million budget for example would do to Spider-Man's net profit ... it would wipe it out entirely. At 350 mill you would lose over 65% of the profit margin. That's using their own data, not something I created.

To say "well that's not a valid concern, that's just a company being greedy" is just blatantly stupid. It's company greed to be concerned when a budget range chops 2/3rds of your profit margin off? Like what fantasy land is this, any business owner even someone who owned a ice cream corner shop would be very concerned about 2/3rds of their profit margin going down the toilet all of the sudden. 

That's not "oh well he just has a different opinion", the leak tells us what Sony really thinks. In their internal docs you can see that there is a lot of hand wringing over Spider-Man 2 costing 3x more than Spider-Man 2018.

Last edited by Soundwave - on 12 June 2024