How else are they going to make money?

Given that the main reason TSR/Wizards puts out new editions of D&D is economic (I mean, how else are they going to make money?)

—ENWorld—[Pseudo-rant] If you don’t like 4e, don’t play it (and quit complaining! ;)

How else are they going to make money? Hmm. I dunno...maybe...

• Publish supplements for D&D
• Publish other role-playing games
• Make new miniatures
• Publish a new miniatures game
• Publish a new expansion of a trading card game
• Publish a new trading card game
• Licensing the D&D brand
• Selling PDFs and reprints of out-of-print TSR and Wizards of the Coast products
• Publish new board games
• Reprint classic Avalon Hill board games
• Publish novels

And that’s not even touching on the vast number of ways Hasbro as a whole can make money. e.g. Continue to print Monopoly

In fact, they’re doing most of those things. I don’t think any executive at Wizards green-lighted a new edition of D&D because they couldn’t think of any other way to make money.