quote: Original post by Boertjie
If a publisher provides most of the money needed, or even all the money needed, about how much of the total profits does the developer get? For example, if the net revenue for 1 copy of the game is $24, and the game sold 500,000 copies, how much of the $12 million profit would the developer receive?

So to answer this. I think you confuse revenue with profits. In the above example there is $12 million revenue and for a price that low you won''t earn a lot. If the publisher used, say, $7 mill. on that title and some money goes to the retail-sales man, some for sales tax then it leaves very little left except for paying for the expenses. So neither developer nor publisher will get any significant amount of money in your example. If, however, they could sell, say 1.000.000 copies they would both become rich.



Jacob Marner, M.Sc.
Console Programmer, Deadline Games

felonius thanks a lot for all your detailed answers, I really appreciate it.

I think I''ll take a break for now asking questions. I will get back to you, when a new one pops up in my head. Thanks, and good luck with the programming!

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Jacob Marner, M.Sc.
Console Programmer, Deadline Games