I'm not saying the OP was debunked.  I'm saying the quoted statements claiming how evil Sony is was refuted on this very thread by a ThatGameCompany employee.  Sorry if I wasn't clear.

On topic, it sucks that it takes so long to get profit, but it seems, from AmishGramish very statements ThatGameCompany had a great relationship with Sony.  In fact, one of the creators of Journey (can't remember the name off the top of my head but it was a woman, not Jenova Chen) had a show on GameTrailers and explained the process.  It seems they were paid to make the game so TGC wouldn't see profits until Sony made money on their investment.  Other indie companies that make profit out of the gate have absolutely no support and have to live on their own money and make the game off their own capital, but it seems like TGC's three games on PS3 were pretty much funded by Sony so it's understandable that after paying out salaries and other investments, Sony gets their money back before TGC can see profit.  Only fair.

Especially on flOw and Flower, we received a lot of help and training from Sony Santa Monica as well as other devs that were developing on the PS3.  (The development of God of War 3 helped out Flower and Journey a lot, for example.)  We had people help us out with various aspects of development (Jenova and some of the Journey team even went to Valve to check out how they ran things, which spurred rumors that Valve was going to buy TGC).

While I can't talk about specific sales numbers (no developers with our sort of contract can reveal these numbers), Journey was one of the most expensive PSN games ever funded by Sony (possibly the largest, but that gets into them funding other companies, which even we aren't allowed to see specific numbers for), and it had the largest marketing budget for a Sony-published PSN game ever as well.

Word on the street is that Journey was the best selling PSN game of 2012, but we don't have any concrete information on this.

But, yeah.  It took a long time to recoup its investment.  Some games take a few hours, some games take a few years, and some games never recoup their investment.  Part of the reason why there are so many games on PS+ is because some developers/publishers just want to get *some* cash for their games.  THQ put up a couple of Double Fine's games on PS+ without DF's permission and kept all of the money.  This was because THQ was strapped for cash because they were funding so many big budget games.

Personally, if I get the cash, I'd really like to give Bryan Singh a huge pile of cash to finish DLTBT.  (Physics of Don't Let The Balls Touch: http://vimeo.com/23400070 )

On a side note, Bryan's now working on Naughty Dog's new game.  (He also worked on The Last of Us) :D

Calm down, kiddos. This ain't the place for feuds.

Sweet is Brian still with TGC or did he move on to Naughty Dog officially? 

Also working on games like Last of Us and Uncharted 4 has to be a major change from working for a 17 person company (correct me if those numbers are off).

Lol, touche.  No I don't "internet" much.  I still understand that whatever forum or comments section I see has a whole bunch of vitriol and contempt based out of misinformation or just a lack of effort by the poster to read others posts.  I guess too many people want to share an opinion but not enough people are interested in learning other peoples to get a good look at the whole picture.

It's alright.  At least it looks like this is clearing up a few problems that improper journalism has created.  (You should see Jenova when he sees that he was taken out of context in an interview.  I was there for the "Xbox gamers don't appreciate art" thing.  It was really taken out of context.  We also have a huge number of fans who only own 360s and/or Wii/Us.)

I am a fan indeed of your work and I only own a 360 xD

Yeah, he was one of those who left after Journey was completed.  For *almost* each person who left, it was a very hard decision to leave the company.  Some people decided long ago that they were going to leave the company when the contract with Sony ended.  (A lot of TGCers are college grads, having TGC as their first or second job.)

He went to The Behemoth for a few months, then moved back across the street to Naughty Dog.  (On that note, I went to the same gym as the people over at Riot Games last summer.  They and Hulu are across the street from TGC as well.)  I talked with him briefly about what it was like going from two small companies (with drastically different views on team management, which is perfectly normal in every industry) to a huge studio.

It was difficult for him at first, but the people at Naughty Dog and the atmosphere are very similar to those at TGC, so he fit right in.  :)

EDIT:
Journey's development team was 14 people at its largest, including contractors.

Man if this is the case for a small indie game, I can't imagine how AAA games are doing. No wonder we are seeing more failures than ever.