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WiiStation360 on 03 March 2009
shams said:
Yeah, WoW is a serious cashcow. Imagine having 10m people paying you $100 each a year...

The only real competitor I can imagine to WoW would be a Pokemon MMORPG (and its a different demographic, so they can co-exist).

It would be interesting to see profits though - WoW would cost a metric-shitload to operate...

Total Operating costs for WoW from launch to last September was only $200M.

WoW is the video gaming's biggest cashcow ever.



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shio on 03 March 2009

So PC is still first? Good, reading the thread title made me think that WoW suddenly imploded and stopped making revenue.



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Kenka on 03 March 2009

Wii is ahead of X360 even though it has no Modern Warfare and barely a tiny slice of the pie when it comes to WaW.



Ail on 03 March 2009

Those 99 millions $ of PC sales do not include the WOW box sales actually, those are in the MMORPG section.
The reason being that WOW expansion sold over 3 million copies at 50$ each last quarter so it can not be included into that.
So PC sales have to be sales of others games like CoD, Diablo2 battlechest, starcraft battlechest.
Heck when Diablo 3 was announced last summer Diablo 2 battlechest climbed to the top 5 pc sales shortly there after for a few weeks.



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

Ail on 03 March 2009
WiiStation360 said:
shams said:
Yeah, WoW is a serious cashcow. Imagine having 10m people paying you $100 each a year...

The only real competitor I can imagine to WoW would be a Pokemon MMORPG (and its a different demographic, so they can co-exist).

It would be interesting to see profits though - WoW would cost a metric-shitload to operate...

Total Operating costs for WoW from launch to last September was only $200M.

WoW is the video gaming's biggest cashcow ever.

 

That is misleading, those operating costs do not include any development cost.

Blizzard has a team of over 100 developers that have been working on WoW for now over 8 years ( actually I think the team is over 150 by now) and countless testers...

I remember last summer Activision CEO claiming that so far the total cost for Wow has been somewhere around 800 million $...



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

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FreeTalkLive on 03 March 2009

The Wii numbers are more evidence that the NPD numbers which show Guitar Hero 3 selling far more on Wii than Xbox 360 are more accurate then the VGChartz numbers which show the Wii only outselling the Xbox 360 version by a little amount. The Wii versions of Guitar Hero games may even be outselling the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions combined.



 

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gebx on 03 March 2009
shio said:
So PC is still first? Good, reading the thread title made me think that WoW suddenly imploded and stopped making revenue.

 

WoW = MMORPG

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That said, Activisions' PC revenue (not counting WoW) came dead last at $99 million compared to the Wii at $400+ million

 



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saicho on 03 March 2009
Ail said:
WiiStation360 said:
shams said:
Yeah, WoW is a serious cashcow. Imagine having 10m people paying you $100 each a year...

The only real competitor I can imagine to WoW would be a Pokemon MMORPG (and its a different demographic, so they can co-exist).

It would be interesting to see profits though - WoW would cost a metric-shitload to operate...

Total Operating costs for WoW from launch to last September was only $200M.

WoW is the video gaming's biggest cashcow ever.

 

That is misleading, those operating costs do not include any development cost.

Blizzard has a team of over 100 developers that have been working on WoW for now over 8 years ( actually I think the team is over 150 by now) and countless testers...

I remember last summer Activision CEO claiming that so far the total cost for Wow has been somewhere around 800 million $...

even if it cost 800 million, the net revenue last year for WoW is enough to cover it... and that's not counting any revenue from previous years.

 



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

Aj_habfan on 03 March 2009

Man, Xbox raised 1 million dollars in revenue, not bad!



c0rd on 03 March 2009
shams said:
Yeah, WoW is a serious cashcow. Imagine having 10m people paying you $100 each a year...

The only real competitor I can imagine to WoW would be a Pokemon MMORPG (and its a different demographic, so they can co-exist).

It would be interesting to see profits though - WoW would cost a metric-shitload to operate...

I think people grossly overestimate the potential of a Pokemon MMO. Even if it is a big franchise, there are two things going against it - the pay to play model (requires parents to pay monthly), and its appeal for home consoles/PC. We know how big the Final Fantasy franchise is, yet it only managed ~500k. On the other hand, WoW's subscriptions are pretty damn close to Pokemon Diamond / Pearl sales.

Anyway, WoW's revenue got even more ridiculous thanks to WotLK. I wonder when the damn thing will start declining, it's been over 4 years. Everyone I know that quit got back into it thanks to the expansion, I'm being pressured to do the same...