i see THQ going down too many issue they have

or the percentage publishers take? Each console generation I buy less and less games. When games were $40 for the PS I bought multiple titles each paycheck. When they jumped to $50 for the PS2 I bought one a paycheck. Now I buy 2 or 3 a year. The biggest thing that has turned me off from gaming has been the fact DLC is 9/10 times stripped out of the game during development and play time. Play time went from 40 hours per title to 25 hours, to 10 now being the norm. Now playing a game is like me paying someone minimum wage. Why would I play a game at that cost? If I'm paying out minimum wage level of cost I might as well stop playing games and start a business(which I have).

My suggestion is to find a better business model and you can always improve your business model by cutting out the middlemen.

this has been a problem for a few years. its getting way to expensive to create games nowadays with multiple platforms and the expectation to be the next modernwarfare. just look at all the money put into games that suck and never sell.

The retail sector eats up most game revenue these days. Their "cost of goods" (they buy from the publisher) is high, but overall their business is MUCH less risky than the development and production businesses are.

The profits used to be much better aligned, but with dev costs skyrocketing, the retail sector has done nothing to cushion the blow on the devs/publishers. It seems to me that retail should share a portion of the marketing expense, or something. They stand to benefit from big sales more than the publisher does, even.

really would of been nice to read an in depth, well researched article. instead i just get a quote that states the same as thing as the title.