Where does your money go?

[EvilBoris]

Eurogamer have a very interesting article here about games, their RRPs and where the monies go.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-01-10-where-does-my-money-go-article?page=1

?3 out of your ?40 goes to the developer, what about the rest? It's in there. Very interesting, you can get a good feel for why the market is like it is from this.

[Guts]

"Metacritic is used as benchmarks for quality."



Interesting stuff to read.

[Mayhem]

I read that earlier. I didn't comment on Eurogamer per se, but the VAT calculation is wrong (they took 17.5% of 40 quid, when it should be 17.5% of the price before tax) and there's no way that most shops (even GAME) make 25% on a new title; they'll be lucky to get 10%.

[Corranga]

I read that earlier. I didn't comment on Eurogamer per se, but the VAT calculation is wrong (they took 17.5% of 40 quid, when it should be 17.5% of the price before tax) and there's no way that most shops (even GAME) make 25% on a new title; they'll be lucky to get 10%.

Yeah, I find it funny when a retailer stuffs it up "we pay your VAT" or "VAT free" and they deduct 15 / 17.5 / 20% from the price, giving you more discount than you should get.

Eurogamer should have had...

100 / 117.5 * Cost
so with 40 quid, that makes the unit ?34.04, and the VAT therefore 40 - 34.04 = ?5.96

More importantly, no mention of developer / publisher rip off pre-owned sales...

Chris