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Max King of the Wild said:
Devise01 said:
Bioshock is the difference. It was a quiet quarter for Take Two. Their 2009 lineup is looking fantastic though.

 

so a year old port that was on sale for one week is the difference.... ok

 

Oh sorry I forgot this is a sales website. The companies revenue is base on shipped units. Bioshock PS3 would of shipped atleast 500k. That makes a big difference.



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Before we get too exited, the PS3 share only counts for the last quarter. Over the whole year the share is like this:

360: 39%
PS3: 34%
Wii: 9%

Still good news for PS3, but not the "biggest revenue generator".



Devise01 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Devise01 said:
Bioshock is the difference. It was a quiet quarter for Take Two. Their 2009 lineup is looking fantastic though.

 

so a year old port that was on sale for one week is the difference.... ok

 

Oh sorry I forgot this is a sales website. The companies revenue is base on shipped units. Bioshock would of shipped atleast 500k. That makes a big difference.

 

 More like 200k... No way they would ship 1/4th of total sales on the 360 of a year old port to the ps3 first week. Get a grip... and besides Ps3 makes up 35% of 324million. Times 324,000,000 by .35 = 113,400,000 now divide that by (and I'll be generous here and use the retail revenue and not what they are going by whch would be lik what 20 dollars cheaper?) 60 dollars and you get 1,890,000

So we are lookin for a game that shipped almost 2 million copies... that aint bioshock (way more than 2mil if you go by their revenue)



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DarkNight_DS said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
DarkNight_DS said:
@SpartanFX: I didn't disagree but if you don't make profit off what you are doing. What's the point? If the PS3 is their biggest revenue generator and it's where most of their games were bought for. This means the PS3 was also the biggest reason they lost money.

Um... how can PS3 be both the biggest generator of revenue and the biggest contributor to their losses? For that to make sense, they'd have to be losing money on each game they sold :S

Exactly what's happened.  Games don't turn a profit until X amount are sold.  They lost money off each game sold as they never met the magic sales number.

 


 

Ugh >_> If all of T2's HD titles were multiplat and the 360 versions made the LESS money, then wouldn't that make the 360 the biggest loser? This is all based on the assumption that HD games are responsible even though there is no evidence of that.

The carnival games series must be behind the loss. Development costs on carnival games mini golf must have been huge.

 



Just to bring light to the argument. In the financial report posted on one thread in this site there was only one type of cost, opperational, but they show the gross profit also, from wich we can take the production cost. SO you basically have the cost to publish and sell the the game (production) and the cost to run the company(operational). The diference is that the operational cost are incurred weather the game sell or not( part of the production cost too, but that´s not the point), so from the numbers provided you can take that the games achieve a gross profit of roughly 30%.

The thing is that most of the operational costs are probably of games still in production, like R&D, licenses, royalties, etc. and cannot be confused with the costs to make the games that are now generating revenue.

So, to say that console A or B generates more profit, you would have to get a special report with the separate costs of each game produced and it´s respective sales, to each console. Anything else is just wishfull thinking( I wish console B were the biggest money loser, or something like that)



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It's rather funny how silly some people are... i already found what game is responsible for the extra revenue.... people are seriously a joke..... Anyone else think they have the answer?

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BengaBenga said:
Before we get too exited, the PS3 share only counts for the last quarter. Over the whole year the share is like this:

360: 39%
PS3: 34%
Wii: 9%

Still good news for PS3, but not the "biggest revenue generator".

exactly . In the last quarter the only new t2 release was bioshock for the ps3 . The margin should have been much more in favour for the ps3. Oh well i guess sony fanboys need something to lift their morale .

GTAIV08 said:
when you look at NPD it seems like ps3 is getting murdered but worldwide, when it all adds up, its a different story and goes in ps3's favour. man europe helps sony alot! how about a video store for us sony?

except the 360 has a bigger userbase in europe.

kowenicki said:
The analysis here is a bit weak.

Surely what was released during the period for each machine really is key.

If they released more games for the PS3 then obviously it would have generated more revenue.

Now I know Bioshock came out on the PS3 in the period mentioned, anyone else have any other information?

Surprisingly enough they provide a shipment list for Q1 2009 in their Q4 2008 results, but no data for what they actually shipped in Q4. However in their Q3 results they gave this list for the remainder of their 2008 fiscal year:

The following titles are planned for release in the remainder of fiscal 2008:

  Title                              Platform                           
   
BioShock® PS3
Carnival Games: Mini-Golf Wii
Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Snow Princess Wii, PS2, DS
Go, Diego, Go!: Great Dinosaur Rescue Wii, PS2, DS
Grand Theft Auto IV (Japanese edition) Xbox 360, PS3
Midnight Club: Los Angeles Xbox 360, PS3
Midnight Club: LA Remix PSP
NBA® 2K9 Multiple platforms
NHL® 2K9 Multiple platforms
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization Games for Windows®
The Wonder Pets!: Save the Animals DS

 

 



fulcizombie said:
BengaBenga said:
Before we get too exited, the PS3 share only counts for the last quarter. Over the whole year the share is like this:

360: 39%
PS3: 34%
Wii: 9%

Still good news for PS3, but not the "biggest revenue generator".

 

exactly . In the last quarter the only new t2 release was bioshock for the ps3 . The margin should have been much more in favour for the ps3. Oh well i guess sony fanboys need something to lift their morale .

 

 there was more than that. (especially since we are looking for 2-3mil worth