It's the total amount of money you make before costs .

Revenue - Expenses ( Costs ) = Profit, perfectly reasonable question.

Revenue is a good indicator of performance but what really matters is profits , some companies operate with really low margins (As in they only keep a low % of what the make overall due to high costs or poor management ).

It's fine. An even more elementary explanation:

Let's imagine I make computer monitors. In total, I sell 10 computer monitors for 100 dollars each. That's a total revenue of 1000 dollars. That's the total amount of money I brought in.

However, that isn't 1000 dollars in profit, as you need to consider that it cost me money to buy the parts to put the monitor together (the glass for the screen, the individual transistors, etc) as well as pay a person to assemble them for me, along with some other variable costs. Let's say those costs total 800 dollars.

In this situation, I had 1000 dollars in revenue, 800 dollars in production costs, and 200 dollars in operating income. Then, if you take out the taxes and interest on debt, which may be 100 dollars, you have your "net income" of 100 dollars. "Net Income" is what we typically refer to as "profit," which is

All the money we made (Revenue) - all the money we spent to make the stuff we sold (production costs) - all the money we have to give in taxes = our profit (Net Income). Hope that helps!

Ahh, i see. thanks dude! :)

So then good revenue = good news then mm, nice! :D

Another big company claiming that the PS3 generates the most in sales, I would like to know why some people claim the PS3 has no 3rd party support, shame shame

Another big company claiming that the PS3 generates the most in sales, I would like to know why some people claim the PS3 has no 3rd party support, shame shame

Well maybe ubisoft will look at this and finally realize they need to bump up there effort on wii.

Doesnt really make sense though, when you look and see games like rayman, and shaun white selling amazing on wii. Also is this just revenue or actual profit? Because there is a big difference there, PS3 games cost more than wii games at retail, and cost more to make.

 Haha, 360 smoked the PS3 for EA last quarter and the last fiscal year. I got the numbers if you really want to see, heh. Actually really cannot wait for EAs numbers next week as it's not even going to be close with two console side exclusives and Left 4 Dead pushing big numbers.

Anyhow, this is too easy, Haze. Simple. Made some shipment numbers, but certainly did not save the developers.  Same deal for one quarter and TT, Bioshock. Again, Bomba.

lol don't understand why Xbox 360 fans love to troll as much as ps fanboy

Imagine titles sell.

edited : it was too sexy to be posted here.l

this thread = failed!!!