NJ5 on 08 March 2009
To illustrate the difference between this generation and the last one among game publishers, here is a table with revenue/profit for the largest third party publisher (or is it Activision-Blizzard now?).
| Year | Revenue (bln $) | Net income (bln $) |
| 2000 | 1.42 | 0.117 |
| 2001 | 1.3 | -0.011 (loss) |
| 2002 | 1.7 | 0.102 |
| 2003 | 2.5 | 0.317 |
| 2004 | 3.0 | 0.577 |
| 2005 | 3.13 | 0.504 |
| 2006 | 2.95 | 0.236 |
| 2007 | 3.09 | 0.076 |
| 2008 | 3.67 | -0.454 |
| 2009 (to date) | 3.35 | -1.05 |
By the way, those are financial years, so 2008 for example actually means the year ending 2008-03-31.
I'm probably going to do an article with financial results for several publishers later, but it might be interesting to see what you think about this data.
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