I think that Sony reported not too long ago that lifetime spending on games and accessories of year 1 PS4 owners has been on average $1600.
Did they say smth like this about Scarlett and if yes, do you remeber where ?
Lol... at this point;
Things like the RAMand SSD will likely continue dropping in price, and there are usually are revisions in the manufacturing process that makes thins cheaper. The APU may also get a little cheaper too as the fab process matures some more.
Spending on content, yes. But MS has not, in recent years at least, been aggressive with price on any hardware they've done. Xbox SADE launching at $250 is a recent example.
like they always have. before the ps4, losing that much on a console early on was normal.
lol. this must be the first friends reference ive seen on this board.
pornhub is for 720p switch owners. i only do porntrex for 4kcb 60 fps.
I doubt the person who wrote the job description has any idea of nerd-level console detective politics.
Of course team 14 believes that TLOU2 costed nothing to make and that they get the full $60 per copy sold of the game, haha
That's largely revenue from selling games on PSN. Most of it gets paid out to third parties.
If Sony is selling the game themselves on PSN then who else will get the cut of that $60? Microsoft? Over half of the sales are digital nowadays. They arent going to change themselves the 30% store fee. The rest, yes they wont get the entire $60 in revenue, retailers will take their 20% cut but its a first party game and they arent going to be paying royalties to themselves.
It's not hard to see most of that goes to 3rd party looking at how much profit they make per year compare to revenue.We don't know what the distribution of all that revenue is, and saying "most goes to third parties" probably isn't accurate either. PSN revenues are subscription based revenues, PSNow based revenues, advertising revenues, revenues from sales of first party titles and add ons, revenue from digital video services, etc etc.
Sony's financial reports don't go into that kind of deep dive. But regardless 12.5 billion in revenue is still 12.5 billion in revenue, and it's recurring revenue year over year. Over 5 years that's 60 billion in revenue.
It's in Sony's best interest to KEEP that revenue stream going, which means keeping people in the ecosystem. That revenue stream wasn't in place for the PS1, PS2, PS3, or PS4 at launch:
so any calculation of how much was lost on those systems isn't likely to be a good measure of what Sony is willing to lose on this one. It's in Sony's best interest to retain the gamers they have AND get new ones into the ecosystem as fast as possible, since the longer they own the system the greater network revenue is.
Game and Network Services (G&NS).
Profit is revenue minus expenses. Expenses are a lot of things, from salaries to game development, to next gen hardware investment, etc.
Lets do this another way.
This is operating income for Sony's game business by fiscal year, 1995-2010. You can actually see the years Sony took big hits in next gen hardware development, in 1995, 2000, and 2006.
Note that the peak of the PS2 era Sony maxed out at 113 Billion yen, with the 2000-2005 period racking up about 265 million yen.
Now, look at 2014 to present:
2018 alone was a 190 billion yen operating profit. 2017 was about 170. 2016 was about 130. In two years the PS4 earned Sony far more operating profit than the PS2 did over its entire lifespan, despite the PS2 selling substantially more hardware and software.
The cut that Sony gets from a third party game is about the same whether its sold on a digital storefront or via retail. So that being the case, why is sony profit completely destroying all records right now? Why was the profitability of the entire PS2 catalogue nowhere close to what was brought in over two years on PS4?
i believe he is referring to Nintendo comparison.
This is from onlive execs fudging the numbers. Retailer cut is 20% or $12 on a $60 game. Could be even less for bigger games since retailers cut deals directly with publishers.EDIT here is a old pic to show you how disc sales for games is be .
