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´These discs cost close to nothing to spit out, yet sell for $60 each.´ What's that supposed to mean? These discs have contents that took years to develop.
by seivan 13y ago
´These discs cost close to nothing to spit out, yet sell for $60 each.´
What's that supposed to mean?
These discs have contents that took years to develop.
- bradddd 13y agoI think he's just commenting on the marginal cost of selling an additional unit after production.
- ihsw 13y agoIndeed, however the time and money isn't at the cost to Sony. Sony takes a cut of revenue from game sales.
- wdewind 13y agoSomeone please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that Sony licenses the discs to the publishers, so in fact to Sony the discs do cost next to nothing (in which case you'd want to include the price of developing/manufacturing the console to make the discs not "cost nothing," not the cost of developing the games, which is on the publisher).
- seivan 13y agoThat actually makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying.
- superuser2 13y agoBut Information Wants to be Free! If can duplicate it cheaply, it shouldn't have a price and no one should get paid for it. They can make money from selling t-shirts instead. You shouldn't expect to make a living just for creating things. /s
- barrkel 13y agoThey don't cost Sony anything to spit out, but Sony takes a big cut of the sales. Developers even have to pay Sony for hardware, SDKs etc. to develop the content.