r/videogames • u/TheDuckClock • Sep 10 '26

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This is just wild. PlayStation wanted to end their partnership with Hideo Kojima. So Xbox was like: "Your loss."

This year is really starting to feel like an inverse of 2014 when Xbox ruined their public image with some insane Always Online DRM requirements and PlayStation capitalized on that.

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u/Burstrampage Sep 10 '26

To be more specific, DS2 “underperformed” in the context of not hitting the sales targets Sony wanted. I have no doubt in my mind death stranding 2 made a profit, maybe even one considered good by many of us, just not in sonys eyes because they are stupid

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u/Fat_Alphonse Sep 10 '26

Idk, only 2 million sales. Between production costs for the physical version, Steam/retail cuts, games bought on sale... It'd be optimistic to say the game made $100 million and plenty AAA games have a higher budgets than that.

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u/SmoothActuator8132 Sep 10 '26

it's simple math, 2 million sales is $120M in revenue at $60

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u/Fat_Alphonse Sep 10 '26

It's not actually. The game retailed for $70. Digitally on PS5 those sales are straight for Sony. On Steam Sony/Kojima only get a 70% cut of those sales, so $49 per sale there. Physical copies then need to factor in the cost of printing the game as well as whatever store's cut of the sale (usually 10-20%) , so if we want to average that as $60 per sale, fine.

But then these are lifetime sales and Death Stranding 2 has been on sale multiple times. According to Deku Deals its all time low price has been about $40 on PS5, $48 on Steam and $30 physically. Who knows what percentage of the sales were at those prices

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u/SmoothActuator8132 Sep 10 '26

I said revenue, not profit

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u/Fat_Alphonse Sep 10 '26

And with sales it's still not a simple $60 per sale

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u/SmoothActuator8132 Sep 10 '26

I don't think you know what revenue is, Steam and Sony don't take their cut out of each sale individually, the entirety of the sale goes to the publisher and one of their expenses is paying the storefronts their cut at the end of the fiscal year

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u/Fat_Alphonse Sep 10 '26

Okay, so then tell me how it is still a flat $60 per sale regardless of the price?