Take-Two Reports PS3 Biggest Revenue Generator

Kotaku writes: Sales were up at Take-Two Interactive, thanks to sales of games like Grand Theft Auto IV and Midnight Club: Los Angeles, but the publisher saw losses also increase to the tune of $15 million.

The company pointed to two other titles, NBA 2K9 and Carnival Games as leaders for the quarter, laying out its fiscal 2009 game plan. That includes two batches of Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable episodes due by October 31, 2009, one of which has already been announced and dated. The company boasted that more than 3 million games in the Carnival Games series have been shipped.

Take-Two list the PlayStation 3 as its biggest revenue generator on the publishing side, with 35% of the quarterly take. That beats out the Xbox 360, which brought in 28% of its publishing dollars, and the Wii, at 11%.

For the entire fiscal year, Take-Two brought in $1.5375 billion in revenue, with $97.1 million in net revenue. That's much better than the company's 2007, when it raked in $981.8 million, resulting in a loss of over $138 million.

[alster23]

well i guess T2 joins the likes of EA, Ubisoft, Konami, and Namco Bandai. i was kinda suprised when i saw ,ore gta4s on 360 then ps3.

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

EA and Ubisoft have also reported that they're making more money from the PS3 but how? Microsoft lying about their total hardware sales again, I guess. That or every refurbished Xbox 360 that goes out whenever they need to repair the RROD counts as sold to retailers (or consumers).

[Nathan Drake]

They've always been reporting the shipped number of consoles,that's why the actual difference between Ps3 and 360 software numbers in the US has been shrinking and shrinking even with Microsoft reporting more hardware "sales"

[sonarus]

Just a question. What does hardware sales have to do with software sales?

[dktxx2]

More hardware - more people to buy games

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

More people own 360's = More software will be purchased for that platform. Or so I thought until EA and Ubisoft reported otherwise.

http://kotaku.com/5030788/p...

[jaysquared]

This is a very confusing... the 360 has more user base and according to NPD sells the most games.. So kinda weird that developers are making more money on the PS3 than on the 360.

[faisdotal]

Well of course 360's sell more, Christmas is coming and central heating prices are going up.

*just for the lulz*

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

"... the 360 has more user base and according to NPD sells the most games.."

NPD only covers American hardware / software sales. Maybe when you stop believing that America is the only country in the world this will all become easier for you to understand.

[Peter Griffin]

ps3?

[faisdotal]

How about Red Dead Revolver 2 exclusive to PS3.

[faisdotal]

To be honest, 360 owners only care about Gears Of War and Halo, it's why they have one.

[Ridrick]

Thats why developers earning money on PS3.

[caladbolg777]

Sweeping generalizations aside, that's almost true.

[faisdotal]

It is true, the demand is so clear when both of these games sell at seriously high amount's within the first week. It's what most 360 owners really want.

/Speaking the obvious.

[Kaneda]

360 sold is misleading.

a gamer - bought system twice (becoz RROD) - still 1 gamer for developer. But M$ counts as new gamer. 3 years warranty is up. So from now on 360 sold will be misleading to developer.

[DaKid]

Am i the only one that noticed this is for one quarter, a quarter when they had no major releases. And on top of this people are so worried about what system made the largest revenue that we all miss they lost money for the quarter?

[Danja]

Can someone tell these developers that the PS3 is a sinking ship...they need to jump out..XD *sarcasm*

I really hope SE is taking note of this trend , PS3 owners dont guy games...meh...I wanna see another Bot say that..lol

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

That was hilarious...

Bubbles, my friend.

[jtucker78]

Maybe it's because M'soft take a bigger revenue cut.

John Carmack said they weren't going to ship rage on 3 DVDs because M'soft would take too much of their money.

Maybe devs don't have to sell as many copies of their games on PS3 to make their money back.

Just a suggestion ... I may well be completely wrong. :S

[konrad]

The hardware is so good that I have to buy second xbox360, when first is in service I have to play.
Thanks God I don't have to buy two times the same game

[SL1M DADDY]

When they know they can make money with it and sell games they know to make more of them for the system. What's more important is that the PS3 has a smaller install base and yet brings in more money for big companies like this. Kudos Sony for making a platform like the PS3 that is appealing to those interested in making money and great games.

[Genesis5]

I still can't figure out with that 8:1 attach rate the 360 has, what publishers games they are attaching to. MS must be embellishing their sales figures. This is why they don't publish hard sales figures like Sony does.

[BrotherSic]

For the the period of November 1, 2007 to October 31, 2008:

360: 39%
PS3: 34%
Wii: 9%
PS2: 8%
PSP: 5%
PC: 3%
DS/GBA: 2%

Thanks to Gaf
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

[thereapersson]

-nvm-

[navyguy21]

Bioshock was released for PS3 this quarter, that explains the jump.

[Genesis5]

Well it's nice to see an article where the PS3 is being bashed for a change. Last week 8 out of 10 articles were a doom and gloom article about Sony.

[KnowitAll]

Jtucker is right thou.

To put things simple. The Game companies (Sony, Nintendo) charge a fee to other companies for every game sold on their consoles.

Sony charges the cheapest fee, lets say 3-4$ from every game sold. While Microsoft and Nintendo (Definately Nintendo) charge around 8-10$ (This are just estimates don't respond)

Sony's always had the cheapest fee and ironcally makes its losses from this

[gaffyh]

Ridrick is correct

[UltimateIdiot911]

I thought I was the only one. I could never figure out how they do those calculation. Those attachment rate does not seem to reflect in these reportings on revenue at all.
Or maybe is because 360 games drop in price a lot quicker than PS3?
Whatever the reason may be, those attachment rating are bs. It proves nothing in the end.

[prowiew]

Probably something to do with the used games market.

[baum]

The reason PS3 is making more revenue for 360 is because PS3 game sales in Europe beat 360 game sales. That "million" lead is not in all europe, it's basically just UK. Since the dollar is very weak against the Euro and GBP in comparison, a game sale in Europe is much better than a game sale in America.

So much for America being "the most important territory in the console war", lol. Tables are turning and the only thing Xbox fanboys can do is spread FUD and negative articles surrounding Sony and PS3, but if that didn't help the Dreamcast against PS2, it'll barely help the 360 against PS3, if it does.

[tordavis]

"More hardware - more people to buy games "

Tell that to Nintendo 3rd parties.

[blackpanther25]

yeah tell them to make better games as well (DBZ for the wii sux)
:)

Edit: Below

Yeah a game is 60 bucks here. the last time i went to UK i thought everything was a reasonable price until i change my currency to pounds. Damn it is a big difference. I found it funny that it is the same price tag but with a different curry symbol on it. Lol i was kinda pissed when my aunt gave me 100 pounds to spend lol i had no clue it was 200 dollars lol

[Sprudling]

A sale in Europe is worth more than a sale in the US. With the current exchange rate the typical price for a new game is about 90$ here (Norway) now. Don't know what games cost in the US, but I imagine it's alot less than that.

[twoface]

i'm sure you know that 360 and ps3 games are in equal (quality) comparison whereas most of wii games are minigames. Compare apples to apples

[hitthegspot]

Yesterday.. I kept hearing "kotaku hates the PS3", "kotaku never posts any positive news about the PS3", "kotaku", "kotaku", "kotaku"...

Well there you have it kotaku posted some positive news about the PS3 software sales. However we are now in Q4 and so far for the year the 360 is still selling more software from Take 2. 39% more as of October 31St. It will be great to see how the year turns out.

[xwabbit]

Well there are a lot of xbox users who have over 2 xbox's in there possession lol. My friend has 4 xbox's, the smart one keeps buying another when one dies. So a lot of the same people buy more than 1 xbox cus their first one breaks.

[na2ru1]

still with a big smile :D

[40cal]

All of these publishers reporting higher revenue earned on the PS3 can only be good for future 3rd party support/ exclusives.

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

This is one of them 360 fanboy articles from the 360 fanboys at Kotaku again /sarcasm.

[TheSadTruth]

Tell me, why are there no multiplatform PS3 games besides GTA4 that sold over 1 million units?

PlayStation 3 games that have sold or shipped at least one million copies.

* MotorStorm (3.31 million)[186]
* Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (3 million shipped)[187]
* Resistance: Fall of Man (2.5 million)[188]
* Grand Theft Auto IV (2.139 million approximately: 1.4 million in US,[189][24] 570,000 in UK,[25] 169,000 in Japan)[190]
* Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (1.926 million approximately: 1.5 million in Europe,[191] 202,131 in Japan,[192] 224,000 in US;[193] 2.37 million shipped)[132]
* Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (1.2 million)[194][dead link]
* Heavenly Sword (1 million)[195]
* MotorStorm: Pacific Rift (1 million)[196]
* Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (1 million)[197]

Total PlayStation 3 games sold as of June 30, 2008: 94 million.[198]

* Halo 3 (8.1 million)[22]
* Gears of War (4.7 million,[23] may include PC version)
* Grand Theft Auto IV (3.484 million approximately: 2.7 million in US,[24] 750,000 in UK,[25] 34,000 in Japan)[26]
* Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (3.172 million approximately: 3.04 million in US,[27] 78,000 in Canada,[28] 53,501 in Japan)[29]
* Gears of War 2 (3 million)[30]
* Forza Motorsport 2 (2.274 million approximately: 2.23 million in US,[19] 31,255 in Japan,[29] 12,600 in Canada)[31]
* Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2.08 million in US)[19]
* Guitar Hero II (2 million in North America and Western Europe)[32]
* Saints Row (2 million)[33]
* Assassin's Creed (1.985 million approximately: 1.87 million in US,[27] 60,000 in Canada,[28] 55,041 in Japan)[29]
* Madden NFL 07 (1.72 million in US)[19]
* Mass Effect (1.6 million)[22]
* The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (1.562 million approximately: 1.49 million in US,[19] 72,274 in Japan)[29]
* Madden NFL 08 (1.51 million in US)[19]
* Crackdown (1.5 million)[34]
* Fable II (1.5 million)[35]
* Perfect Dark Zero (1.5 million)[36]
* Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (1.5 million)[37]
* Call of Duty: World at War (1.41 million in US)[38]
* Call of Duty 2 (1.4 million)[39]
* Dead Rising (1.4 million)[37]
* Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (1.352 million approximately: 1.32 million in US,[19] 32,000 in Canada)[28]
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (1.291 million approximately: 1.27 million in US,[19] 18,592 and 2,731 Platinum Collection version in Japan)[29]
* Call of Duty 3 (1.234 million approximately: 1.22 million in US,[19] 14,194 in Japan)[29]
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (1.211 million approximately: 1.2 million in US,[40] 8,903 and 1,622 Platinum Collection version in Japan)[29]
* Fight Night Round 3 (1.15 million in US)[19]
* Dead or Alive 4 (1 million)[41]
* Geometry Wars (1 million)[42]
* Madden NFL 09 (1 million in US)[43]
* Ninja Gaiden II (1 million)[44]
* The Orange Box (at least 1 million)[45]
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (1 million)[46]
* Uno (1 million)[47]
* Viva Piñata (1 million)[48]

[eagle21]

Playstation 3 is healthier than ever and 2008 is indeed the year of PS3. PS3 owners are buying more software across all publishers, 360 owners are not buying enough games period. The RROD is affecting 360 gamers purchases after all and it seems it's why this vicious Sony attack is occuring: to cover it up.

[eagle21]

360 owners buy more of the same games, probably exclusive to their console. You can't spin these facts reported by Take-Two. I guess Ubisoft will be next.

[Narutone66]

Xbox 360 games are so easily pirated. Just look at the torrent sites.

[UltimateIdiot911]

Ubisoft already reported earning the most from PS3.

[Megatron08]

And of course your point is completely wrong konami released a single game on the 360 its no surprised that they made more on the ps3. Especially given that mgs4 is only on the ps3. Take-Two also released more games on the ps3 this year. Last year they released more on the 360 and big surprise last year they made more on the 360. As for EA they release trash so I guess that just means ps3 owners have poor taste in games

[twoface]

but why did this publishers publish more games on ps3?

[JHUX]

EA publised Deadspace I believe, which was from from trash. Although there sports games are trash.

[Breakfast]

....that picture doesnt make sense.

That leg is just in a weird position.

[Roukuko]

lol so true

[rucky]

Posing for GQ baby

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

Um this guy served in Vietnam. Both of his legs are fake.

[Breakfast]

...

[Marceles]

The crazy thing is hes standing up :-O

[caladbolg777]

He's got a little Captain Morgan in him.

[spectyre]

Isn't that veird?

[Ariexv]

wow you guys are retarded, the EA numbers were fake, 360 made EA more money then Ps3 + psp + ps2 + Wii combined. As for take two numbers it's because Bioshock Ps3 just came out.

[rucky]

Link for the EA comment?

[Bathyj]

Look out !! Your pants are on fire.
.
.
.
Ass.

And what about Ubi, Konami, and Activision was it if I remember right.

[JD_Shadow]

Keep making excuses, dude. I'm sure SOMETHING will stick to that wall of your's.

[BattleAxe]

Didn't Activision also say that the PS3 generated more revenue for them aswell?

[rebirthofcaos]

bu bu bu... how is that possible the 360 is selling more... ;_;

/sarcasm

[Ariexv]

Bioshock(ps3) if you look @ the year-long revenues 360 wins easily.

[Xlll]

@Ari thats a lame excuse and a poor attempt to spin this story.

[ultimolu]

Stop breakdancing on the news.
It is what it is.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Yeah Ariex stop telling the truth and putting things in perspective.

This is for the current quarter and the PS3 had Bioshock which is why they earned more. Simple stuff.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

{Bioshock PS3 Release Date - Oct. 24th, 2008)

PS3 Release Dates:
Dead Space Release Date - Oct. 31st, 2008
Fallout 3 Release Date - Oct. 28th, 2008
Guitar Hero:WT Release Date - Oct. 26th, 2008
LittleBigPlanet Release Date - Oct. 28th, 2008
Midnight Club: LA Release Date - Oct. 24th, 2008
Resistance 2 Release Date - Nov. 2nd, 2008
Saints Row 2 Release Date - Oct. 14th, 2008
Socome: Confrontation Release Date - Oct. 14th, 2008
Valkyria Chronicles Release Date - Oct. 31st, 2008
Motorstorm: PR Release Date - Oct. 28th, 2008
FarCry 2 Release Date - Oct. 21st, 2008

{Bioshock 360 Release Date - August 21st, 2007)

360 Release Dates:
Blue Dragon Release Date - August 28th, 2007
Madden 08 Release Date - August 14th, 2007

Tell me how THAT is a fair comparison, kid! I think that the smaller install-base makes it almost fair...and that's ALMOST!

[Chris Hansen]

Further proof the Xbox360 is dead in PAL(except UK) and JAP territories. NPD numbers don't mean jack when every major publisher in the WORLD is generating much higher revenue from the PS3.

I bet Square-Enix must feel really stupid right now thinking the Xbox360 can generate more revenue for them.

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

Exactly. 360 fanatics (for some reason) get a hard-on whenever they read that an American product is selling better in America of all places (NPD = American numbers ONLY) but what about everywhere else in the world? Is America the only country now? Apparently not, seeing how publishers are making more money from the PS3.

[mirroredderorrim]

We need to arrange for Square Enix to take a seat.

[shelbygt33]

You guys are reading this wrong.
These numbers are for 1 quarter only. Annual numbers show the 360 ahead by about 5% (39 compared to 34 of the PS3).

So take a step back, stop thumping your chests and read before you post.

[Nicaragua17]

LOL I thought ps3 owners didn't buy any games? Stupid Xbots!!

[eagle21]

PS3 owners buy more Games, Blu-ray, etc.

We probably buy more downloadable games, downloadable movies (lol), rent more from Netflix (lol) and hd dvd (LMAO) etc.....

Bots FAIL. :(

[InfectedDK]

Xbox360 owners are like the Armish people.
- Living in the past.

For them the future is no good. They have their games. Halo (farms) and thats good enough for them.
Not so good for game companies though i guess.

[EVOLVED]

biggest revenue, infected, eagle and nicaragua. took it up the A== for the ps3 to make there first profit. they sold there a-- to help sony stay a float.... good job,always ps3 fans willing to take it to help the cause. I would stay away from infected. Thats how he got infected SUCKING AND F-CKING AND SELLING a-- for his favorite console ps3.

JAPAN LOVES YOU, KEEP ALL THE LONG HOURS AND THICK TIME CRUNCHES TOGETHER AND U MIGHT BE ABLE TO SAVE THEM.

hahahahhahahah u suck

[InfectedDK]

What the f..k is wrong with you?

[EVOLVED]

YOUR DUMB COMMENTS, THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE A GO. SORRY DIDN'T KNOW YOU WHERE REALLY TAKING IT UP THE A==. DAMN MY BAD, I WON'T TELL ANYONE ELSE.

TYPICAL PS3 FAN.

TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION NOTHING IS WRONG. XBOX IS WHOOPING YOUR A==
GO TAKE A LOOK AT SALES. XBOX SALES ARE GOING TO WIN THIS YEAR.

[Sonyfanclubpresident]

we need to crack the champagne my fellow PS3tards!

And to think all of us droids were acting like the PS3 version would sell at least 40% or 50% more back in the day before the game released,because we boasted GTA was a "playstation franchise".
Now we're reveling at a 7% advantage.

We need serious denial help!
And at the same time,
we need any little small victory we can get, so keep up the good work!

So quickly we forget how with MOST OTHER multi plat titles, the 360 WASTES US in sales.
7%..........great to be a gaystation fan though.

[Guitarded]

Just like the EA article a while back, this is for one quarter that had no 360 releases and Bioshock for PS3. All you morons are owning yourselves. See you in a couple of days when the yearly revenues are reported. Idiots!

[dukadork]

xb!tches babbling nonsense when hard facts hit them in the face: lolololol
despite the year headstart, EA, Ubi and T2 make more money on PS3: "the sinking ship" LMAO!

ok xb!tches: you can now go back to your daily circle jerkoff, we don't mind
BTW, halo still tops XBL charts: 2008, what a year for 360

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA!

[captainjy]

Please, this is the one dinky shiny standout of the entire year for the POS3 so just calm down. 8:1 attach rate for the 360, so in the meantime just STFU.

[Xheratuul]

an xbeing might spit out their false taste of sales.

[Nathan Drake]

Was because they got quite a big percentage with the GTA4 Ps3 bundle.

Anyways,Lost&The Damned being 360 exclusive was a smart move by Microsoft,but terrible decision by Take 2

[Sevir04]

Take 2, EA, Ubisoft, Konami, Namco Bandai.. making more income and revenue on PS3?.... What come again?..... Really? it couldn't be? not with the 360's magic software attachment ratio 8:1 Really? Good job sony. and LOL!! about the picture, breakfast that was hilarious

[Ariexv]

EA Revenue in millions
360 224
PS3 98
PC 88
PS2 54
NDS 43
PSP 36
Wii 33

[alster23]

ok ariex so maybe, as you claim, ea makes more on 360 butthere still 4 other companies claim that the ps3 is there big seller

[Ariexv]

Take Two Year-long Revenue Numbers(the numbers in this post are only for 2 months). Who else is their still? Because besides those fake posts from some sony fanboy who flat out lied 360 has brought in the most revenue for every single publisher in the world unless there's an exclusive Ps3 game that released during the period.

360: 39%
PS3: 34%
Wii: 9%
PS2: 8%
PSP: 5%
PC: 3%
DS/GBA: 2%

[Chris Hansen]

EA Q1 2009 Results Ending June 30, 2008

1. $139M - PS3
2. $86M - PC
3. $81M - Xbox360

[Ariexv]

Again those we're the fake numbers posted by some fanboy that ended up being disproved less then a week later.

http://www.n4g.com/gamecube...
http://www.n4g.com/gamecube...
http://www.n4g.com/gamecube...
http://www.n4g.com/gamecube...

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

http://kotaku.com/5030788/p...

[Bathyj]

Oh good, Ari's out of bubbles.

Man is he butthurt.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

haha yeah Bathyj good thing he is because he was laying some smack down with all that truth.

[TruthBTold]

You are showing U.S. sales, they were talking about world wide sales. They make more money in total sales from every single region on the PS3 so while the 360 makes more money in the US when they total sales from every single region PS3 sells more in total.

So you understand better imagine you run a company that sells product A and product B. Now you sell product A in a huge state, Texas, which gives you 100,000 compared to product B which sold 70,000 in Texas.

But your sales dont end there, you still have to add sales from all other states. So by the time you finish adding up your total sales you see that product B sold a total of 1,000,000 while product A sold a total of 800,000.

So even though product A sold a lot of units in a huge state in the end product B sold more because it sold more in more regions.

[ultimolu]

Lol, bubbles.

There's countries out there other than the United States, lmfao.

[shelbygt33]

I like how all of us think we know the inner financial workings of T2 (myself included).

They sell lots on each platform, and in 1 quarter the PS3 may beat the 360, and then vice versa.

Since when did we give a shat about this kind of thing, anyway? I don't own stock in this company, and I guarantee about 99% of this site doesn't either).

[TruthBTold]

LOL I know, I know. Its sad to see how kids nowadays don't receive proper education. The truth of the matter is that it actually makes them look more ignorant. I just see how many people think Europe and Africa are countries and not continents. Also many people tend to call all latin people mexicans because they speak spanish when Mexico is just one country out of many that speak spanish. It's very sad. Sales are on a global scale not just one country. As for many saying EA sells more, I remember reading somewhere how EA biggest game has always been FIFA, not Madden. Its the most played sport around the world. It's funny sometimes or most of the times but there are times it gets to be annoying. Anyways bubbles to you as well for understanding the point I was trying to make. Here's to hoping education improves in schools so we can stop hearing such ignorant comments.

[Ariexv]

Bioshock(ps3) came out....

[Kush_Reaper]

Bu bu but ps3 owners don't buy games only movies lol. How's it feel to eat your own sh!t? Only logical thinking would be that Microsoft are lying about their total hardware sales or they still count RROD replacements.

Edit: lol at the disagrees. What are you seriously trying to say? That these companies don't know what their talking about? Wow! idiocy at it's finest. Instead of dissagreing you should be wondering what games are coming out on your precious box lol.

OBAMA!!!

[LinuxGuru]

This can't be....the PS3 is a failure!

/sarcasm

[power of Green]

LOL at the fucin retarded PS3 fanboys thinking EA's report is proof PS3 is doing well.

The article that stated EA reported PS3 being the bigger bread winner was followed up by another post stating it was because Sony reports in real time(sale by sale) vs MSFT doing it two different times that land in two different sales window periods. lol

[Kush_Reaper]

Aww it's ok little retard. Shouldn't you be playing halo3 lol.

OBAMA!!!

[ruibing]

If you are talking about that comment made my Pachter on N'gai's article regarding deferred earning, he specifically said that only EA does that while Ubisoft does not. While Take Two's boost could be due to Bioshock's release on the PS3, deferred earning, or the PS3 simply performing better, you really don't know so please don't make assumptions and try to feed them to the rest of us as facts.

http://blog.newsweek.com/bl...

[power of Green]

Idiots can't even comprehend the god dam article/info and this rabid fool is calling me out. Get your mind right and your facts.

No one cares what PS3 fanboys say, your twisting of the truth no longer works hence the PS3 being left in the dust in sales/dev support/popular opinion. lol

EDIT:

Makes sense for the quarter though PS3 has no real appealing exclusive AAA's to take up gamers cash lol.

[ultimolu]

Poor PoG.
He must have had a massive heartattack when he saw this so he's breakdancing the facts. :3

[Kush_Reaper]

Twisting? the only person doing the twist is you. The companies have spoken and put the facts on the table yet you plead your intelligence is far greater than them because you dissagree lol. And the rims on the micro$haft kindy bus keeps spinning.

FACE THE FACTS TROLL.

OBAMA!!!

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

Careful guys, the retardedness is strong with this one.

[shawnsl65]

Sparta how dare you make me laugh while drinking soda!.. that shiit went all over the place -__-

[Shane Kim]

Hahhaha Sparta, I spat my food on the screen :D.

[MONOLITHICIDE]

"No one cares what PS3 fanboys say," then why are you here saying anything lol you make no sense trying to Dis ps3 fans when you do the same

[DJ]

Every damn publisher is reporting "Yeah, we make most of our money on PS3."

[faisdotal]

Like I said. It's a backup for houses that are prone to high prices of central heating.

[testerg35]

DJ, of all people.. did you even bother to read that this is Quarterly? Like how the title doesn't reflect that?

[Venomish]

I know two of my friends have xbox and they never use it.

[Pennywise]

A lot of people bought a 360 when Ps3 wasnt out. Now they own a PS3 and anyone who owns both will tell you where the quality is.

[XDF]

Shouldn't you be watching Blu Ray since there is nothing to play on your PS3.

[ultimolu]

And shouldn't you brats be playing your Gears of Broken War?

Yeah, I thought so.

The PS3 has games. Grow up.

[Kush_Reaper]

Lame man, very lame. At least do it properly if you're going to troll. Aren't you supposed to be sending your RROD 360 for the 4th time? You see that's how you troll. If anybody wants to know the intelligence of an xbox fanboy just examine a chimp lol.

OBAMA!!!

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

Lol @ XDF. Still living in 2006 I guess.

[na2ru1]

Captain Caveman - dumb dumb

[Nogames08_09_360RROD]

Maybe Rockstar should consider giving the GTA4 DLC to us PS3 Fanboy and fangirls for FREE as an apology.

[ultimolu]

I'm sorry 360 fans but the PS3 is a major player among 3rd party now.
You may now stop spinning the news.

[Dark General]

I think some how royalties from the Ps3 version of games being sold is higher than the royalties from the 360 version of games being sold. Because the 360 versions sell the most but somehow companies turn more profit from the Ps3 version of games.

[caladbolg777]

If that is the case then it's great incentive to become a PS3 developer.

[Dark General]

I got a ton of disagree's for saying something POSITIVE? Wow. I basically just said what you said, i guess people just didn't read between the lines.

[ultimolu]

Don't worry, you got an agree from me.

[Xbox is the BEST]

fake. Believe Sony fans

[Xbox is the BEST]

"Take-Two list the PlayStation 3 as its biggest revenue generator on the publishing side, with 35% of the quarterly take"

Do you guys know what quarterly means. Is this the education system in America at work?

[ultimolu]

STOP SPINNING THE NEWS.
Lol, you 360 fans are panicking aren't you? Did you think the PS3 would stay at the bottom?

[Razzy]

Just like all of the parts in the 3FIXME

[gravv]

haha ari got owned :D

[ultimolu]

Killzowned! :D

[Valdass]

wow

[testerg35]

Hahaha.. now you PS3 fans decided that Kotaku is a reliable source of information. You guys are like a bunch of emotional women. Can never figure out what you guys want.

And this is "Quarterly" revenue, not the yearly. If you remember, Bioshock came out.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Michael McWhertor is reliable...not all of Kotaku. He has no bias. Look - http://kotaku.com/people/Ge...

[UziSuicide]

Why does everyone mention Bioshock?

No one I know bothered with it because they'd already played it by the time it got to PS3. Just because it was a big hit once upon a time doesn't mean jack when it was delayed so long.

Bioshock 2 may be a different story, but if you're trying to say that the title that bumped the 360 sales up helped the PS3 you'd be pretty badly misguided.

Talk about clutching at straws.

[JD_Shadow]

Everyone has their days.

Like I've always said: Complete idiots can have a day that they turn into geniuses, and ivy-league scholars can always have a day when they can be complete dumbasses.

However, I expect tomorrow that we'll see an article from Kotaku explaining that they let Michael McWhertor go and make some BS up as to why they did. I mean, how could they let something that actually didn't have their usual pro-MS/anti-Sony slant on things slip though?

And...how is your holy grail of news reporting that you guys solely rely on suddenly wrong, eh? See, that logic and argument can work both ways, pal.

[ultimolu]

Not everyone at kotaku are jerks.

[gravv]

juuken can i see ur picture..?

im just curious nothing else in my mind ;D

[realill]

It is not the first company who claims it get more money from PS3 then XBox. I know Take-Two released PS3 Bioshock, but still GTA4 XBox version outsold PS3 GTA + PS Bioshock (according to vgchartz).

Ubisoft and EA has similar claims too. So does MS charges more for releasing games on 360 platform then Sony does? I know it is very expensive for publisher to publish multi-DVD games for XBox 360, still TT does not releasing such games ...

[Johnny Rotten]

according to vg chartzzz

[Thatlalala]

Yeah Reminder Bioshock for 360 was released Last fiscal year.

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

Nobody buys games besides Halo on my system.

[SSCOOLCHEA]

Do is play halo and gears all day.....and they watch there netflix and think its HD thats whats funny....Do you idiots know that what your watching on netflix isnt HD...LOL....

[shamv]

So much hate towards 360 here. You guys forget numbers from all the other small publishers. But ps3 is doing better than ever, and I see myself buying a few games for it next year. This fanboy war over sales numbers is becoming pathetic.

[YeOldeGamer]

not to mention, use misleading/bogus titles in their story submissions.

"Take-Two list the PlayStation 3 as its biggest revenue generator on the publishing side, with 35% of the QUARTERLY take. That beats out the Xbox 360, which brought in 28% of its publishing dollars, and the Wii, at 11%."

Bioshock, which released a YEAR ago on the 360,and therefore wasn't included in the 360's #s, was released this year...and QUARTER on the PS3. That game ALONE pretty much makes up for the small 7% differential. Factor in that GTA IV sold more on the 360...and will soon add to T2's revenue with the DLC...and it's easy to see just how bogus this submission really is.

[Wile]

I agree with you, but I also agree that if we want to look at the whole picture of these figures over the year. We should look at the sales of the whole year for the PS3 before supporting the doom and gloom ps3 articles. I'm not saying you are doing either but I did want to use your valid point to make one of my own. The "Hypocrisy" claims on this site are valid from both sides.

[ReBurn]

People are just looking for a way to put the PS3 in a positive light, considering the beating it has taken in the last week. If the submitter of this story had used the original headline of "Take-Two Takes $15 Million Loss For The Quarter, Half-Billion Sales Increase For Year" people wouldn't have even bothered to approve it. It just goes to show that people don't read the articles before they come into the comments section to flame.

As is stands, though, I guess that it is safe to assume that for the quarter the PS3 also led the way in regard to TTI's losses.

[OOG]

lol people all spinning things around..its kinda hilarious to watch....

but yes even tho ari er whatever his name was seems kinda crazy.... I do remember the EA thing being fixed and EA had made more then double on the 360.....

Plus what people are mentioning this is only for the quarter in which Bioshock finally made it to the PS3.... etc etc...

but its good to see the developers are making money...maybe they will use it to publish some more good games and possibly take some chances.

[tatotiburon]

hahaham lol the drois reporting the real numbers hahahaha, how funny they are trying to fight back all the media hate around their sh**ty console with everything they can find....hahahaha sorry droids, this year it's already lost for you hahaha the drois crying, best holidays ever!!

[Xheratuul]

illogical comment of an immaturized person^^^

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

^ And yet more proof that 360 fanboys need some serious help.

All I could make of your post is "blah blah blah hahahahahahahhahaha blah blah i'm gay and stupid hahahahahahahahaha".

[Kush_Reaper]

......blah...blah..........

[UziSuicide]

I can't wait for someone like ReBurn to come in here and say the PS3 has a lower attach rate.

That's EA, Ubisoft and now Take 2 all having stronger software sales on the PS3 this year.

[ReBurn]

I don't need to say it when you're saying it for me. Take Two Interactive lost $15 million in the same quarter that the PS3 led the way in revenue. I'm sure that means something, right? Or is it more convenient to just ignore the bottom line?

You misunderstand me. I'm not against the PS3. I paid $500 for a 60GB system a year and a half ago, so the last thing I want to see is the platform fail. But I have to call it like I see it and so far Sony isn't bringing it like they have in the last two generations.

[jackhammer84]

does this mean that they should be reconsidering the exclusivity of Lost & Damned?

coz they should :(

don't really care if it's a timed-exclusive or not.

[JD_Shadow]

+ Bubbles for you. I was about to bring those GTA4 things up.

This will say a lot about how L&D does (which, if we're going by those numbers alone, it might not be too well), and what that will do for the exclusivity of the other one they do. Though MS will somehow try to spin this (since they seem to try to be T2's mouthpieces when T2 never asked them to be), the fact remains clear: This means bad news for L&D's sales and the future exclusivity of the other episode.

Hell, what about the planned Fallout 3 DLC that the 360 is getting? What kind of danger to THAT exclusivity does this do?

Basically put, with how popular Take Two's games can be, this news can be a HUGE game changer in the console wars.

[Funky Town_TX]

This is what I got from it. I'm not a money guy but I have another link. Go Sony sell those games.

http://www.marketwatch.com/...

[Wile]

Take a look at the Kotaku image of EA quarterly reports. This is similar thing that was happening with the article about the 360's November Sales figures.

One side was claiming victory while the other claiming that the whole year wasn't being considered and the xbox360 just got a price cut.

Same thing here! The year overall and timing of game releases is not being considered.

Xbox 360 revenue the last four quarters = 623 million
Playstation 3 revenue the last four quarters = 410 million

I don't care which way of looking at it you consider the 'truth'. But if I read another fanboy post screaming "HYPOCRISY" just to find them supporting the same behavior in the next article, I going to...umm...err...*sigh*...to just read the next one. *defeated*

EDIT:

For the disagrees please read post 10.1 thanks :)

[Cyber Gamer]

it looks like to me the xbox 360 owners don't buy much games as the ps3 owners lol hope i don't get a Disagree now

[Narutone66]

their games off torrent sites. What do you expect from a last-gen optical drive? So easily pirated. Some of the xbox fanboys are now claiming that they have downloaded Blu-ray movies the size of a DVD-DL. Lol.

[Neo604]

All I see is gay and stupid xbot.

[MUGEN]

I bought GTA 4 and MC LA for the PS3 instead of 360 version(even though I own both consoles) just because i've played both since the start on Playstation.

[lonix]

i cant wait to finish work on my 360 nxe virus

suck on it hard

[EVOLVED]

THATS WHY SHE SAID YOU HATE XBOX CAUSE SHE SUCKS OFF US XBOTS.
F-CK IT CALL ME A XBOT. YOUR MOM DOES IT WHEN I PUT IT IN THE BOT.

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

YOUR MOM HAS THE BLACK PLAGUE IN HER VAGINA! THEY TRIED TO ABORT YOU WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER BUT EVERYTHING WENT TERRIBLY WRONG SO THEY HAD TO PULL YOU OUT ANYWAY! YOU WERE BORN WITH ONE ARM, NO LEGS, NO GENDER, AND RECTAL WARTS!

Please die now.

[Lord Xire]

Who knows??

MSFT has a high attach rate...so when you know your system has a nice demand of software you can charge publishers more because there your b*tch....or...

Sony cut production costs because Blu Ray costs more then a measly DVD9 and they probably cut it enough for Publishers to make more money...

I mean what are they gonna do? Tell MSFT..."Hey dudes we're not making games for you system till you cut the costs down to Sonys Ps3 level."

Yeah right.

But until anyone finds the corporate documents on what goes behind the closed doors you never been behind....including me.....STFU!!

[deno]

What bugs me about all this is why are ps3 owners buying garbage such as grand theft auto and need for speed or whatever, but not games such as resistance 2 and little big world. Do you guys see the trend here? The 360 fanboys buy halo and gears but they don't mainly purchase shovel wear such as need for speed, carnival games and gt4. Buy resistance 2 and little big planet instead of this mediocre garbage. The triple AAA exclusives sell bad on ps3 but the shovel wear sells good. The article fails if you actually read the damn thing. Well this can only mean one thing and that is more shovel wear is on it's way!!!

[Ausbo]

no s**t konami got more revenue from the ps3. Thats like asking epic or valve to see their reports. Tell me sony fanboys did epic make more on sony platforms or from the xbox. by the way, i believe bioshock came out this year on the ps3.

[Kush_Reaper]

Oh the wheel is still spinning? Sorry my bad *leaves quitely on tippy toes*

OBAMA!!!

[QuackPot]

Different buying/renting/trialing/trade- in/sharing practises of the typical Ps3 and xbox 360 owners.

Hardcore gamers aren't chumps. most of my 360 friends only have a handful of games - and they play most games that come out.

I for one buy games to keep for life...except I'll be trading the disappointing farcry when I ever get round to finishing it.

Enough said.

[UziSuicide]

Your proof for this?

Actually you probably have a point, ppl who buy a defective product because it's cheaper are less likely to buy nothing much of anything else.

Good point.

[Aloren]

is that better selling exclusive came out on 360 (fable2, gears 2)
I don't want to debate whether they were better games than PS3 exclusives or not, I don't care, but I think they sold quite better than PS3 exclusives of the quarter (and again, I don't care why they did). So, bioshock on PS3 + less agressive competition on PS3 in this particular timeframe, and.... and tada ?

(And actually, the "unreliable vgchartz" shows stronger GTA sales on PS3 in early november)

[Narutone66]

Xbox 360 games are so easily pirated. Just take a look at the torrent sites. You don't see any PS3 games in those sites.

[Why o why]

They only EVER quote the NS attach rate and everybody thinks thats the whole worlds trend. NA does not equal the world. Ask MS what the 360's world attach rate is and you'll be waiting for as long as the answer for 'Whats the real failure rate'....trust me

[OSIRUSSS]

Damn, Power of Sh!t hasn't been back on this site for 2 days and he is Knocking on one bubble's door.

[Rampant]

This is just for last quarter. Let's see... All games they put out the last quarter was multiplatform, except for Bioshock PS3. So they published one PS3 exclusive game (For the quarter) and 0 360 Exclusive games, and yet 360 almost generated more revenue?

Do you even think when you comment on these stories?

[Sarcasm]

According to the unreliable source VGCHARTZ, Bioshock PS3 didn't even sell that well anyway.

http://vgchartz.com/games/g...

[Anon1974]

Forbes, BBC, Fortune, The New York Times and the New York Post all use VGchartz as a source. You don't think these publications take the time to check their news sources? If you've got information that VGchartz is unreliable, you should probably contact these publications and let them know about your sources.

Personally, I've found VGchartz to be mostly in sync with NPD's sales estimates, and we know they make adjustments to their figures when official numbers are released from the companies themselves. I keep hearing people claim VGchartz is unreliable on forums - but I don't know. I think if credible news agencies find VGchartz accurate enough, that's means more to me than random fanboys bashing VGchartz on various forums. NPD data has been wrong time and time again when put against official data - but oddly no one claims NPD numbers are unreliable when we know they don't receive any data from some of the big box retailers and just have to guess like everyone else.

[Sergeant Osiris]

bwahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha ha

despite all the M$ lies and spin, DESPITE all the xbot lies and spin....
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, and that TRUTH comes in the form of software revenue. FACTS ARE A MOFO AREN'T THEY HUH LITTLE XBUTTS?

You can only BS the industry for so long, now most developers and publishers are laughing at the constant M$ spinning.

[Sergeant Osiris]

I HAVE CONFIRMED that N4G is run by 360 fanboys, I posted some real exclusive info revealing M$'s new plan against Bluray and this f@gg0t named "SYKO 360" deletes my thread and bans me from the forum. Talk about petty bitter fanboys. I doubt I will be coming back to this place much. I have more important things to do than deal with self important PEONS like that.

[MONOLITHICIDE]

Thats ridiculuos! thats an Out rage and notice we have no bubbles, but all the 360 fans have like 10 and higher

[Condemnedman]

Thats it then i'm binning my 360 and my 30 plus games because my ps3 and 5 games are making more money so i dont want to play on a console that makes less money > fecking idiots

[ReBurn]

I wonder why the original title wasn't used? Because if the company lost $15 million in the quarter then their strong revenue numbers don't mean a thing.

[Captain Tuttle]

Kotaku always has negative PS3 news

[Why o why]

and we should forget all of their dross right, right. Maybe u SHOULD slide those goggles down;)

[Captain Tuttle]

Crecente is a member of the Illuminati.

[Why o why]

i thought they were part of the skulls...

[PLAYSTATIONGENRATION]

You guys would love to say everyone is stealing 360 games....it is simply not that its probably less than 1 percent of people with stolen 360 games...

[jrsenkbe]

Its simple. MS hasnt sold as many consoles as they say they have. Numbers can be spun anyway and most owners of the 360 and Wii are not old enough to buy/afford their own games.

[maspi]

I agree with you.
but remember for xbox360 owners that ps3 owners don't buy games maybe only BR movies (sarcasm)

[jrsenkbe]

I actually think that there is some truth to this statement by people. However, if a game comes out that I want I am not going to say "hey i just bought two blu ray movies, guess I cant buy a game or dont need one now". Movies offer short amounts of entertainment for their price when compared to games, especially ones that are played online like Call of Duty.

[Shane Kim]

BWAHAHAHHAHA, man I haven't had this much fun since Kleptic owned Jenzo in the "xbox 360 easier to work with" thread. Too see all bots scared sh!tless only makes my dinner so much tastier.

[peeps]

title is a bit misleading tbh ps3 was the biggest revenue generator for take2 in THE LAST QUARTER which is unsurprising when you consier Bioshock for ps3 was released then.

[solsub]

Impossible. It's a well known fact that PS3 owners do not buy games. /sarcasm

[rawd]

The 360 has no gamessssssss

[donnie-2105]

false microsoft have said they bring in the most money for 3rd partys.thats why the 360 goes from strength to strenght.

[Official General]

I hope this means the next GTA title will be PS3 exclusive, make full use of Blu-Ray capabilities and much better than GTA 4, and no more gimping by the 360.

[PotNoodle]

Microsoft take a higher royalty on each game sold, that coupled with the fact the 360 has a piracy problem is meaning they loose out on the 360 version?

[Radiodread]

hell yes

[Stereojet]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H!!!

After negativity after negativity coming from MS and it's supporters about sales, now this??

LOOOL!!

[Mikey Mike]

90 percent of the crap here are either blogs or websites posting horrible opinions and spin it as news. Strange how developers are coming out in droves and are debunking the PS3 Failure Myth! The same failure myth has been associated with Blu Ray. The media and the so called experts lost more credibility, particularly this site, now that the movie industry claimed that Blu Ray is winning on all fronts. Just because you don't own it, and wish you could get one, does not = failure in the industry.

[Obama]

I know why all the bots go rampage, since the new mgs was announced for the ipodtouch, not their plzfixme console. They still couldn't get over that haha.

[Raoh]

360 pirated games are a possibility. i think this will be better observed in 2009 as pirating 360 games really took off in late 2008. you can barely find an older 360 model in the stores cause everyone is buying a able to be modded 360. local mom and pop game store near my area had to track one down for me, took them 3 days.

another reason as mentioned before on this thread. is the type of gamer. just about all the 360 gamers, casual and hardcore are going for halo 3, gears 2, fable etc... thats pretty much it.

the ps3 gamer is more diverse as there the old ps2 loyal rpg gamers, the casual gamer that gets a few games, the blu ray watcher that gets a few big name games, the hardcore gamer that gets all the exclusives.

there is also the overseas numbers. gta4 on the 360 outsold the ps3 in the states but the ps3 outsold it in japan.

[Jecht]

Blu-Ray = Pirates worst nightmare.

[Magic_The_Celt]

The biggest publishers in the world value PS3 as there biggest income :)

Well done PS3, sony you must feel pretty proud right now :D

bow your head in shame microsoft..oh wait your american just go get a milkshake to drownd your sorros fatty

[Ausbo]

are you guys serious. Just because you saw one person online do it doesn't mean there is a problem. Do you kids realize what you have to do to pirate 360 games? It isn't easy you have to hack the box to even let you play pirated discs. I am sure that there is less than .5% of people who do it, aside from the low-life nerds. I have 17 xbox 360 games and a lot are exclusive or have exclusive content. No we don't only buy halo,gears and fable. I am telling you guys that bioshock put ps3 ahead. What other game even came out besides gta which was close in sales to each other. Gta will never be exclusive again because why would they bail on all of the money made from 360 gamers. If you guys would think before you talk, then maybe i wouldn't have to explain this to you.

[Ausbo]

poor epic they are only going to sell 8 million gears rather than 8.0001 million. Damn that piracy is an issue (sarcasm)

[Narutone66]

piracy is not a problem. But take a look at Asia, particularly, China, Malaysia, Philippines, etc. You could practically buy pirated xbox 360 games from large malls and even on sidewalk. Those pirated games cost about 1/10th of the retail price. To tell you the truth, it is very easy to mod the xbox 360 console. As it is using a last-gen optical drive.

[Jecht]

That you don't personally have to know how to do it right? There are stores that you can get it done in. Hell, Canada is one of the worst places in the world for piracy, outside of Asia, and I personally know several places where a person can get their systems modded. I only have to know how to fork over the money.

[Raoh]

LOl i bought my 360 specifically for pirating LOL

flashed it in 10 minutes on tuesday. now i have about 10 copied games. about 8 or so downloading as we speak

while i was looking for an older 360 to mod. i couldnt find one for a few days. since the introduction of the jasper model all the 360's able of modding are in high demand.

_____________________________ ____________________

i'm noticing though. most of the 360 games arent that great.

gears 2 = mediocre, no real desire to finish the campaign past the point where Tai killed himself. its a good game just over hyped.

last remnant's frame rate drops so much it looks like a powerpoint presentation.

fable 2, maybe its me but i hate the art style and find the crumb trail to be lazy.

left 4 dead is awesome. nuff said. left 4 dead is the true 360 game of the year.

broken bond is good too.

tales of vesparia is crap.

havent tried infinite undiscovery but i'm not holding my breath.

Lost Odyssey is great. very underrated. it's actually better than the reviews claimed and the load times are on par with most rpg games actually. i hate the reading though.. but if it were FMV for the memories the game would be on 8 discs not 4.

a lot of the 360 games are not worth buying in my opinion.

[Ps_alm3k]

Those pirates who sail the seas on a X Boat : )

[hetz15]

i see an article for ps3....

[air1]

didnt the story say "quarterly"?

i cant wait for the year end sales number..

[Allowen]

More Xbox360`s consoles sold does not mean more games sold but more pirate games bought/or just downloaded for free. HEHEH.

On the other hand since there are no piradcy on the PS3 , then more colsoles sold= more games will be sold as well.

if I ever buy an xbox360 will be to play pirated games. I dont trust a super potential RRoD machine with expensive original games.