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Title: Top 20 Video Game Publishers listed by profit
Post by: darkNiGHTS on July 31, 2008, 08:40:44 AM: (http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9638/pubs2jo8.jpg)
Look at Nintendo way up there and Sony way down there. SEGA is going downhill too, I wonder what's going to happen to them.
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Post by: liugeaux on July 31, 2008, 10:40:34 AM: I call bullshit...
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Post by: Adam Bomb 669 on July 31, 2008, 12:50:31 PM: hopefully sony 86es there game division.
Title: Re: Top 20 Video Game Publishers listed by profit
Post by: darkNiGHTS on July 31, 2008, 07:10:14 PM: Quote from: liugeaux on July 31, 2008, 10:40:34 AM
I call bullshit...
Why? Sony and Microsoft both have lost money for every system they've sold since launch. Especially Sony with them pushing Blu-Ray and all. The Wii is only one that is profitable.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/sony-profits-up-but-ps3-losses-double/ (http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/sony-profits-up-but-ps3-losses-double/)
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Post by: Generalidea on July 31, 2008, 07:29:43 PM: I call bull too :P blizzard isn't on the list.

Vivendi, nvm
Title: Re: Top 20 Video Game Publishers listed by profit
Post by: darkNiGHTS on July 31, 2008, 07:31:01 PM: What has blizzard published recently that would earn them any money? World of Warcraft was published by Vivendi.
Title: Re: Top 20 Video Game Publishers listed by profit
Post by: Generalidea on July 31, 2008, 07:36:03 PM: I've got an elsewhere article that says Vivendi makes approx 440 million a quarter?
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Post by: darkNiGHTS on July 31, 2008, 08:04:39 PM: That's an old article and apparently they are getting money from other sources too.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/01/business/fi-briefs1.s5 (http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/01/business/fi-briefs1.s5)

That makes it sound like it. Maybe it's listed by just their gaming endeavors.
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Post by: xdanxx on July 31, 2008, 11:10:46 PM: lol @ sony
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Post by: Adam Bomb 669 on August 01, 2008, 12:10:55 AM: SONY = PHAIL!
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Post by: H-town23 on August 01, 2008, 02:47:40 AM: Sony's games were always lame...
They made the worst sports games...
I'm surprised EA is losin money, especially with Rock Band...
Go Disney and Square Enix! Go Kingdom Heartsssssssssss =]
Title: Re: Top 20 Video Game Publishers listed by profit
Post by: liugeaux on August 01, 2008, 07:13:16 AM: Quote from: darkNiGHTS on July 31, 2008, 07:10:14 PM
Why? Sony and Microsoft both have lost money for every system they've sold since launch. Especially Sony with them pushing Blu-Ray and all. The Wii is only one that is profitable.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/sony-profits-up-but-ps3-losses-double/ (http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/sony-profits-up-but-ps3-losses-double/)
If this number is based on Game publishing alone...which your thread suggests...I call bullshit. Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony did not sell enough games in that period of time to warrant that massive of a gain or loss in revenue. Hardware sales aren't "publisher" numbers. I would love to see the real profits from the publishing divisions of the hardware makers.

So, what this is saying is that Microsoft Publishing, who in this time period released titles like Forza 2, Mass Effect, Lost Odyssey, and Halo 3, lost 574 million dollars. I call bullshit.
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Post by: GeezuzKhrist119 on August 01, 2008, 08:47:27 AM: i woul think nintendo would be lower since its still a bitch to find a wii
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Post by: ultrapyro222 on August 01, 2008, 09:35:18 AM: where are the sources for this? was it by a website, magazine or something?
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Post by: willplayer on August 02, 2008, 02:46:18 PM: It makes sense for all of those. I can believe Disney and Nintendo for sure. Microsoft I can believe that if that included hardware sales. And we can see Sony obviously has no advertising experience :P
Title: Re: Top 20 Video Game Publishers listed by profit
Post by: darkNiGHTS on August 02, 2008, 06:28:24 PM: Quote from: ultrapyro222 on August 01, 2008, 09:35:18 AM
where are the sources for this? was it by a website, magazine or something?
http://www.edge-online.com/features/edges-top-20-publishers-2008?page=0%2C0