4% of games make profit

Electronic Entertainment Design and Research Company has said that only four percent of videogames sent to market actually make a profit.

They later go on to explain some interesting facts about sales and what affects different game types have on the sales.

60 percent of a game's budget is spent "reworking or redesigning" it. Implementing a co-op mode is claimed to boost sales by 12,400, while a multiplayer mode could add 25,000 copies to a game's sales roster. That's about $1 million in revenue, so as long as the cost isn't greater than the profit.

Reasons for such a low profit:

Down loadable content
Multiplayer modes
Selling pre-owned copies
Cross platform sales