edit - Slimebeast beat me to it

This discussion is pretty silly. You guys are completely forgetting many of the complexities involved in the differences in American vs European retail, and with comtemplating their own portions of the profit.

All future posts in this silly thread need to include every detail, or they are totally invalidated. ;)


Or... you could just assume that the publishers know what they're doing, and that there's not some strange profit incentive to sell more games in one reason or another, and in the end, it balances out, by the usual nature of large economic machinery in motion.

If there was a region that was more profitable than another, by any reasonable margin, it would have been exploited already, and then... balance would have ensued. There are legions of capitalists looking for economic advantages, such as those proposed here, on a daily basis. I think you guys can safely assume that the profit margins work themselves out to an even mark, in the end.

Procrastinato it's rather funny to say the other calculations are wrong due to "complexities" and then just using some hand waving to arrive at the conclusion that the profit margins are all equal :P

It's not even possible for the margins to be equal since currency values are changing all the time.

I realize retailers could have different margins, but we have no real data about that.

^the last two posts were good.

It's summed up now.

Basically the publishers don't aim to earn more or less from games sold in Europe versus North America, but for currency and other reasons it can temporarily happen (and works both ways).

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I've heard that EU retailers want larger margins then US retailers.