Good shit, How come Ps2 is so shitty for legs

Not at all, I think you raise a good point but that chart has many things about it I can't explain. Like why and how are MS and Sony doing so bad on games? I thought game revenue was supposed to make up for hardware losses not add to the them.

I don't profess to understand why so few comapnies are doing well. I think the issue of sustaining long term sales is part of the answer but I can't explain why the Nintendo platforms seem to do that so much better.

It saddens me to see Sony being pounded into the dirt so badly....but then i look at the date of the chart, and realise thnigs will have improved since March

The PS2 is probably underrepresented in the top fifty because it’s a declining platform and there is a huge supply of used games but if you look a little further down the list the PS2  can post some impressive longevity figures of its own.

For example the 200 week old GTA SA for the PS2 is outselling the 17 week old GTA IV for the PS3. This one example probably speaks volumes about both platforms.

His chart clearly states ends 3/31/08. Besides, 2 days worth of sales is hardly indicitive of the profit loss of take 2

Actually the chart clearly states "Approximately...."

If you delve further into each page (representing the seperate companies) he states various dates on them.... most companies have their fiscal year end on March 31st so they are all fine, but some end at different times in the year, when it was a long way out I believe he either found data to represent the year ending March 31st, or he adjusted based on what he knows of the industry.

With Take 2 their year ends October 31st... but he recalculated based on a year ending April 30th (because half-year reports are probably available, wheras they won't give monthly reports so it would be guesswork to figure it out for end of March)

And 2 days of sales is very very important for a game like GTAIV if they happen to be the first 2 days.... those 2 days probably brought in over $300,000,000 in revenue alone.... so had the game been released just 2 days later the profit bar would be $300,000,000 lower than it is, and lower than the previous year.

It was not my intention to pound anyone into the ground. I even liked Sony up until that stupid "we don't want the seniors" remark.

Nor was I trying to draw attention to the revenue chart which was not the point of my posting. The real question is why are current PS3 games averaging less than 6 weeks in the top fifty and not a whole lot better world wide.

It's lkely that they made an ass load of cash in those first two days after GTA4 launch but I can garun-goddamn-tee they made more than 5 million dollars on that game on the 3rd day after its release. Which is not counted in this graph.

While I fully agree NIntendo is raking in the cash-money  Take2 isn't doing as bad as the OP reports.

ninteod is freakishly rich

 Why?