You really wouldn’t imagine it, but according to financial reports, it would appear that several huge publishers are making more money from the PlayStation 3 than they are with the Xbox 360. One writer, who uses the term “bread-winner” far too much, has been checking out some numbers which indicate that the PS3 is now capable of outperforming the 360 in terms of software sales.
The writer claims that EA’s financial statement shows that the PS3 accounts for 17% of its total revenue while the 360 only manages 10%. Ubisoft has a similar story, with the PS3 netting 20% of software sales with the 360 lagging behind at with 14%. In the case of Namco Bandai, not even Tales of Vesperia could stop the PS3 netting the company 57% more sales than the 360.
It is Konami’s report, however, which is the most telling. Doubtlessly helped by Metal Gear Solid 4, the PS3 accounts for a massive 57% of Konami’s sales, while the 360 only manages a pitiful 2.6%.
This would all seem to suggest that Microsoft’s company line of being THE place for software sales is a lot of horsesh*t. Of course, these examples by no means define the industry as a whole, but they show that the PS3 is putting up a Hell of a fight on some very important battlegrounds. When you consider that the 360 has the larger install base, it only serves to make the PlayStation 3’s software successes all the more impressive. Fair play to Sony on this one. Fair play indeed.
