This is a very good point. Developing various hardware can be incredibly expensive. They had to make a different wireless controller for every single system too. Not only that but Konami owns the rights to the DDR style gameplay and I believe their patent extends to the music genre too, so they have to pay fees for that.

... Wow.

shocking.... I guess though it was mainly because they had to purchase a whole company to get started. But still, there is 700M in revenue somewhere

100 million dollars?!!! WTF?!!

Wow, I tought rockband was more of a cashcow. You know, because they were milking it.

hum ... surprising

Looks like a lot of it was upfront costs though so profitability for Viacom should be just around the corner.

Fixed.

That's what I was thinking...

I mean, this included the $150mil to purchase Harmonix, so they're at least even without it. I don't know if they're making more or less profit now than when Rock Band initially came out, though.

Wow.

That is pretty shocking.