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It costs roughly $3-5 to design, code, stock and market a $60 game.
The markup is pure profit (aka rip-off).
Try looking at some financials from a publisher. In 2007, Take Two reported net revenue of $981 million and cost of goods sold of $735 million. So clearly it costs a lot more to develop and produce games.
And that's not taking into account all their other overhead costs, which results in them posting a net loss of $138 million (and a net loss in 2006 as well).
This notion that game publishers/developers are just swimming in cash is ridiculous. |
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Dec 6, 23:27 |
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Dec 7, 02:37 |
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RP |
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Dec 7, 13:55 |
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Dec 7, 14:10 |
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Dec 7, 21:56 |
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Dec 6, 18:26 |
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Dec 6, 20:30 |
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Prez |
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Dec 6, 21:35 |
$60 video game |
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Dec 6, 23:14 |
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Dec 6, 23:24 |
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shponglefan |
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Dec 6, 18:42 |
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