Assassin's Creed III sells 3.5M, Watch Dogs in 2013

 @AlexFili Ive already noticed a STEEP drop in the AC player base. Its hard to maintain a full game. Most are 5 - 6 player matches, Im disappointed

 @AlexFili I hope the servers will hold aswell

 @valensim dont know like, seen the graphics on watch dogs..

 @GLDanzego They're talking about the money it's taken to market their games.  Basically, the money they've spent making sure everybody and their mother has heard of them.

 @HipHopBeats If Watch Dogs is even half as amazing as it looked at E3, it's going to be a day-1 purchase for me.  I can't wait to hear more about it.

 @DeadSoulKing Watch Dogs might not be out for another 12-24 months though! I can't wait that long! :)

 @musalala It means the game sold very well but the company suffered a loss overall for the last 6 months as a result of the usual costs of doing business. AC3 is too new to have had its sales figures impact their balance sheet yet.

 @muzza93 It is because these articles are generally reporting the high sales of a NEWLY released games. Those types of games generally cost a lot of money to produce and because of that they are losing money for the LAST 6 months. Even with AC3's great sales, it is too new to have impacted their balance sheet hence the loss.

If you look at a broader time range of their financial earnings about 6 months from now, they will most likely be making profit.

It is rare for companies to have the cash lying around to be able to start up a large project. There is just too much overhead and because of that, those companies are almost always at a deficit at the beginning before they have sold whatever product/service they specialize in.

 @muzza93 Huh? Publishers post profits all the time. I think 2K posted one recently, Rockstar usually, and Activision never seems to lose money (and they shouldn't given they have the two best cash cows in the industry).

They did sell a lot of copies but they feel they have spent lot of money on advertising and marketing.So they feel their profit is only marginal

 @muzza93 And companies report very conservatively by law because if they are optimistic and are wrong they can get sued so they always report less than they are making, Ubi could actually be making money but they report it as loss. Its kinda dumb and you need to take an accounting class to understand it.

 @muzza93 Cost of production is apparently quite high. Then it has to be put onto disks and those disks need cases and those cases need the art work. Then there is royalties and probably some taxes along with paying voice actors. Lots of staff and, if there is a game engine licensed out from someone, such as Havok, DMM. Ubi did create a very powerful engine in order to be able to have these huge numbers of people on screen at a time (around 1000 or 2000) and that takes a lot of time and resources. Then there are distribution costs and taxes on that and more taxes and fees.... Its kinda ridiculous how much money is spent on taxes and fees. I dont know their exact accounting report, but I'm sure if you wanted to look for it you could find it.

 @muzza93 Because if they posted their profit then they can't continue to pass off the argument that "used sales are destroying the industry" bullshit.

Let's think about this for a second and see if we can't sense something is amiss: According to these developers they continually post a loss...YET THEY CAN MAGICALLY PUMP OUT MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR GAMES AT A REGULAR CLIP.

Hmmm....As Spock would say, "Highly illogical, Captain."

 @svaubel that sawtooth sword mission for preordering literally took me 5 minates to do. That's the whole reason i preordered it and the mission was horrible and buggy. They really are trying to get every penny out of us.

 @svaubel Just goes to show that bitching on the internet accomplishes absolutely nothing.

 @Voice_of_Wisdom trooolllololooo

 @MJ12-Conspiracy And GTA 5.