Stephen Totilo: Two massive PlayStation games are likely to have been highly profitable (around $300 million each)

[Gizmo_Duck]

Looks like @MeachTheMonster math was off

What's happening: Those normally closely held figures came to light via a poorly redacted legal filing that's part of the FTC's lawsuit to block Microsoft's bid for Activision.

Why it matters: Development budgets, which are typically industry secrets, are generally said to be skyrocketing for marquee games — and these numbers confirm the trend toward massive Hollywood-style spending.

They made their dev money back.
They made their marketing money back.
And on top of that they made close to 300 million dollar in profit.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Looks like @MeachTheMonster math was off

now y’all believe in michael pacter

• Pachter pegs Sony’s profit on each at close to $300 million.

and as usual i was 100% correct

Economics for blockbusters, in other words, favor first-party games.

One day y’all gone quit arguing with me

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

now y’all believe in michael pacter

Thats the only reason I posted it, so you can’t deny it


and this is specifically what you said about one of those games

This is one of the most successful highly rated and most talked about single player AAA games in recent history and it’s road to profitability seems very dire.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Thats the only reason I posted it, so you can’t deny it


and this is specifically what you said about one of those games

That doesn’t mean the game isn’t profitable.

It means it’s a very risky proposition to NEED to spend $200+ mill and sell 6m+ copies for a game to break even. Most publishers can’t take that risk.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

It would be great for the industry

If these games was multiplat though

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

That doesn’t mean the game isn’t profitable.

It means it’s a very risky proposition to NEED to spend $200+ mill and sell 6m+ copies for a game to break even. Most publishers can’t take that risk.

Games scale their budgets to what type of returns they can make, you aren’t really saying anything groundbreaking. Its the same reason why avengers can cost 200m to make and something like john wick is less than 100.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

It would be great for the industry

If these games was multiplat though

They’re multiplat for people with multiple platforms

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Games scale their budgets to what type of returns they can make, you aren’t really saying anything groundbreaking. Its the same reason why avengers can cost 200m to make and something like john wick is less than 100.

Breh. Your article concluded the same thing i did.

Economics for blockbusters, in other words, favor first-party games.

literally was the entire point of the thread. You just stan so hard you always wanna argue some shyt.

Thank you for validating another MeachTheMonster industry analysis

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

That doesn’t mean the game isn’t profitable.

It means it’s a very risky proposition to NEED to spend $200+ mill and sell 6m+ copies for a game to break even. Most publishers can’t take that risk.

The bolded is my point. Sony can do that.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Breh. Your article concluded the same thing i did.


literally was the entire point of the thread. You just stan so hard you always wanna argue some shyt.

Thank you for validating another MeachTheMonster industry analysis

This thread is mostly about you being wrong about The Last of Us 2, the greatest single player game of the generation (the one thing you were right about)

 

[MeachTheMonster]

This thread is mostly about you being wrong about The Last of Us 2, the greatest single player game of the generation (the one thing you were right about)

I didnt say the game wasn’t profitable. There was nothing for me to be wrong about.

Michael Pacthters math don’t make sense from what we know.

Even if they pulled a full $60 per game sold that’s still only 600M total, so i’d like to see his math. Your article doesn’t really explain how he got to that number.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Michael Pacthters math don’t make sense from what we know.

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Michael Pachter?



Sony has lost millions.