- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
The average profit margin in the video-game industry in recent years has ranged between 17% and 22%, according to estimates from S&P Global Market Intelligence, while coming in between 10% and 20% over the past six years at Xbox. Court documents from 2023 revealed that Microsoft’s gaming business had a 12% profit margin for the first nine months of the company’s 2022 fiscal year.
Remember that when the talk is of “profit”, that’s just “charge extra money to line the pockets of major shareholders, because fuck you, that’s why”.
It’s a higher retail price than it has to be. You pay that.