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> their absence indicates that they do not agree with the narrative that the price of games needs to go up Their absence suggests to me that the writer of the
by lj3 9y ago
> their absence indicates that they do not agree with the narrative that the price of games needs to go up
Their absence suggests to me that the writer of the piece didn't have access to that information. Wouldn't you need inside information to come up with those numbers?
- falcolas 9y agoWell, here's the writer's own words on that subject: > Using industry contacts and a bunch of web research, I assembled a data set of over 250 games covering the last several decades. I would make the reasonable assumption that revenue could be guessed at, if not explicitly uncovered, given the detailed data the author appears to have on the number of sales and costs. Many publishers and dev houses are public companies who release public information about their costs and revenues.
- Raph_Koster 9y agoContacts were far more willing to just share dev cost; I didn't get anywhere near enough figures on revenues that could be tied back to specific titles. I don't have data on number of sales at all. Public companies don't break down by title, alas, not customarily. The fact is, even this data set is highly unusual.