Quantic Dream CEO Blames Used Sales for €10 Million Loss
By Dustin Mendel | September 12, 2011 | News | 3 comments | Share
Quantic Dream CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere recently took aim at second-hand game sales, using the Playstation Network’s Trophy system to make some surprising claims.
In a recent interview with GI.biz, he suggested that the used game market was responsible for an estimated €10 million in sales from their most recent release, Heavy Rain. This was based on the fact that Heavy Rain had sold 2 million copies, but “probably more than three million people” had the game on their PSN profile, according to de Fondaumiere, which worked out to “a million people playing my game without giving me one cent.” Of course, this doesn’t take into consideration the fact that multiple profiles could belong to one person or a family of people, or that gamers were trading amongst themselves rather than buying and selling Heavy Rain from a second-hand store.
Where do you stand on the issue? Do used game sales unfairly hurt developers like Quantic Dream, or is it simply an aspect of the industry studios will have to learn to live with?
Secondhand sales... Or lending it out to friends. Yup. I've seen it going around between some friends. One copy, five players.
Wow the way the guy says it “a million people playing my game without giving me one cent.” He sounds so greedy :I
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