• rgb3x3@beehaw.org
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      8 months ago

      They’ve sold 117 million PS4s and 59 million PS5s.

      They take a 30% cut on each game sold on the PlayStation store. That’s $18 for every $60 game sold.

      If every one of those people bought just one game per year, Sony brings in $3,006,000,000 every year. Even if only half of gamers buy one game per year, that’s still an insane amount of money.

      Corporate greed on full display. And don’t tell me it’s because of game development costs. Because:

      The next game, which is a fan-favourite is Uncharted 4. This game needed $40 million to be completed, and after its release, it made around $1 billion.

      And the best of them all, Marvel Spider-Man. This game cost $100 million to be developed, and when it was released, it made a whopping $6.8 billion.

      https://www.futuregamereleases.com/2022/09/lets-talk-games-how-much-did-it-cost-to-make-vs-how-much-it-made/

      Sony-funded games are wildly profitable.

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      8 months ago

      Not on the scale it’s been happening recently it isn’t