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<blockquote data-quote="Mark W**a" data-source="post: 34028" data-attributes="member: 1196"><p>I think we will see Twilight Zone. In fact, that's probably why there has been a delay in the first place.</p><p></p><p>You have to think financially how this will make sense too. Slyddogg had the DLC sales around 5k-6k a piece for each pack. Considering MS takes a 30% cut of those DLC sales; it's simple math. 75K-90k revenue, 50k-60k profit. (title update was free).</p><p></p><p>So if you factor in 40K for a title update, then you're looking at a mere 10k-20k profit for 3 packs. Not viable, hence the delay.</p><p></p><p>If they were going to do just 3 packs, we'd have them by now. Elvira atPM + Gofers was ready way back in early September (360 is lead platform). </p><p></p><p>That's why I'm confident we'll see at least 4 packs, if not 5. At 4 packs, that's potentially 40k+ in profit, at 5 you're lookign at 60-70K, which is much more the kinds of decent profits they are looking to make off the Xbox platform.</p><p></p><p>Really any way you look at it, they aren't making the money they should be making, Xbox goes from being one of the most relevant from a sales perspective to the least relevant, all because of MS policies crippling profitability. Like I said we are lucky we get DLC at all. But still, I'd have to imagine even with title updates it's making more money than say, Mac or Vita platforms... at least I freaking hope, that would be SAD if it weren't doing as well as those, profitability wise (not trolling the platforms, but VITA installed base is extremely low and mac simply isn't known for being a big gaming platform in general).</p><p></p><p>Also I didn't factor this in, but when DLC was released for PBA it got a boost in sales of the base pack as well. So that should also be taken into consideration.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, my guess (and hope!) is that we will have 5 packs submitted to Microsoft by the end of the month, and up on Xbox Marketplace by early-mid December. That's a TON of DLC to play with, and will keep me very happy well into Q1 2013 when we have another 3 packs + Star Trek ready. Like I said in other posts, fewer, but huge/more polished updates make sense for the Xbox platform, and personally I'm ok with that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark W**a, post: 34028, member: 1196"] I think we will see Twilight Zone. In fact, that's probably why there has been a delay in the first place. You have to think financially how this will make sense too. Slyddogg had the DLC sales around 5k-6k a piece for each pack. Considering MS takes a 30% cut of those DLC sales; it's simple math. 75K-90k revenue, 50k-60k profit. (title update was free). So if you factor in 40K for a title update, then you're looking at a mere 10k-20k profit for 3 packs. Not viable, hence the delay. If they were going to do just 3 packs, we'd have them by now. Elvira atPM + Gofers was ready way back in early September (360 is lead platform). That's why I'm confident we'll see at least 4 packs, if not 5. At 4 packs, that's potentially 40k+ in profit, at 5 you're lookign at 60-70K, which is much more the kinds of decent profits they are looking to make off the Xbox platform. Really any way you look at it, they aren't making the money they should be making, Xbox goes from being one of the most relevant from a sales perspective to the least relevant, all because of MS policies crippling profitability. Like I said we are lucky we get DLC at all. But still, I'd have to imagine even with title updates it's making more money than say, Mac or Vita platforms... at least I freaking hope, that would be SAD if it weren't doing as well as those, profitability wise (not trolling the platforms, but VITA installed base is extremely low and mac simply isn't known for being a big gaming platform in general). Also I didn't factor this in, but when DLC was released for PBA it got a boost in sales of the base pack as well. So that should also be taken into consideration. At the end of the day, my guess (and hope!) is that we will have 5 packs submitted to Microsoft by the end of the month, and up on Xbox Marketplace by early-mid December. That's a TON of DLC to play with, and will keep me very happy well into Q1 2013 when we have another 3 packs + Star Trek ready. Like I said in other posts, fewer, but huge/more polished updates make sense for the Xbox platform, and personally I'm ok with that. [/QUOTE]
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