letsdance on 20 November 2009
| FaRmLaNd said: No they didn't make 700 million profit. They don't get 100% of the disc sales, since microsoft gets a cut and the brick and mortar stores are pricing it more then ab sells the disc to them. So not only does microsoft get its cut, they're selling the disks to retail at a cheaper price then the $55 average price. Now I have no idea just hot much they make per game sold but it isn't anywhere near $55. And movies are a very different beast compared to games and the comparisons are really silly because in america the distributers get 90% of the first week ticket sales which dimishes in a sliding scale after that. So whilst I film may only make 100 million in its first week, that in many cases translates into 90 million revenue for the distributer. In the rest of the world its generally a fixed percentage which goes anywhere from about 60% to 20% depending on the country. But its general its considered to be about 50% on average. So if a film makes 100 million in america first week and 100 million in the rest of the world its pretty reasnable to think it make around 140 million. And the box office doesn't include Television rights and DVD/BR sales. So comparing a films Box office to a games gross really isn't a good comparison at all. |
since this is activision reporting the numbers then I assumed theyd be reporting their own numbers... or do they get a part of retails cut? Anyway. If we are going by retails revenue then they only shipped 9 million?
