I found the next part more interesting. It's well known that Microsoft's standard royalty is 30% and that they've advanced Take 2 $50m of sales. This means they need to sell 1.75m copies of each episode (assuming they take $14 per unit) before it can make a profit.
Personally speaking I'm a little more optimistic than Mr Pachter...these episodes will be marketed to hell and back and will naturally have a long tail. It'll be a good earner for them IMO.
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I found the next part more interesting. It's well known that Microsoft's standard royalty is 30% and that they've advanced Take 2 $50m of sales. This means they need to sell 1.75m copies of each episode (assuming they take $14 per unit) before it can make a profit.
Personally speaking I'm a little more optimistic than Mr Pachter...these episodes will be marketed to hell and back and will naturally have a long tail. It'll be a good earner for them IMO.