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ozsman on 12 January 2009

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TacoBoy49 on 12 January 2009

I think your mistaking LBP with a nds game like Imagine: teacher. LBPcannot have profited on 250k in sales. At least on this planet.



theprof00 on 12 January 2009
Max King of the Wild said:
theprof00 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
TacoBoy49 said:
Other costs associated like packaging,distributioon,store's cut of sales and marketing expences have to be taken into account. On top of that, SCE failed to make a blockbuster game for themselves this year. Nothing they made was on the level of gears of war fable 2 wii fit or mario kart. Lbp was bundled and had a massive ad campaign. I doubt it profited. Also?the PS3 had the worst software sales for the year of the big 3.

 

 LBP probablly profitted less than the 250k mark. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Most HD games usually profit around there and high budget games usually profit around the 350k-500k mark with blockbuster games (Like MGS4) needing like 1million. And we all know how small of a studio Media Molecule is.

Is this a joke?

 

 

 not at all. People over exagerate expenses of games. Which the typical HD game is less than 10 million. With bigger than media molecule studios

The average game sells less than 300k. which means games have to profit before that.

Oh? what did you mean by LBP only profitting 250K? meaning, they made money past 250k copies sold?

 



Max King of the Wild on 12 January 2009
TacoBoy49 said:
I think your mistaking LBP with a nds game like Imagine: teacher. LBPcannot have profited on 250k in sales. At least on this planet.

 

 your wrong about everything else in this thread so why wouldnt you be wrong about this? Are you goin for a record for how many times a user has been wrong in a thread? 25 developers dont require much money.



Gamer4eva on 12 January 2009

lol



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TWRoO on 12 January 2009

If Sony profits from the PS3, we should see masses of profit for the gaming division.

Considering they lost $400 million last quarter, I say good luck.



Kzoellner on 12 January 2009

What if sony has been lying this whole time for th past four months and it only cost them peanuts to make a PS3? highly doubt it



johnsobas on 12 January 2009
Max King of the Wild said:
TacoBoy49 said:
I think your mistaking LBP with a nds game like Imagine: teacher. LBPcannot have profited on 250k in sales. At least on this planet.

 

 your wrong about everything else in this thread so why wouldnt you be wrong about this? Are you goin for a record for how many times a user has been wrong in a thread? 25 developers dont require much money.

 

no, if a game like LBP profited at 250k everyone would be making video games because it's pretty damn easy to get a game like that to sell 250k.  Not only that but the advertising budget for LBP must have been massive.  If Sony actually made that much profit on their software then they must be losing an absolutely massive amount of money on the hardware.



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Max King of the Wild on 12 January 2009

theprof - MM is a very small studio. It only has about 25 empoyees. Compar that to somethinglike GG who has over 130...



mike_intellivision on 12 January 2009

The cost of an average PS3 game was estimated to be $15M (USD) at the of 2007. It is doubtful these costs decreased over the last year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7151961.stm

LBP was a long time in development and was delayed at least once, meaning it probably cost as least as much as the average game.


Meanwhile, 250k retail sales brings in $15M. But that does not include things like marketing and sales discounts (wholesale vs. retail). It also may not include things like packaging and distribution.

So 250,000 retail sales (at full price) is going to bring in the average development costs -- but does not cover all costs.

If there was such a low number to making a profit, more developers would be making money and fewer would be going out of business.

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