Zlejedi said:
Considering minimal advertising budget it will easily meet break even point or profit. |
No chance.
If there was such a thing as word of mouth it would already have happened. There was a demo weeks ago and lots of pre-release footage.
Can you grasp how bad a 150k opening week is? It means 1 million lifetime is out of reach. And it means just like it did for Mirrors Edge that half of its sales will be from the bargain bin at $25 per copy sold.
Castlevania bombed incredibly hard and will lose many millions of Dollars.
With Patrik Stewart doing voice and all the games' other production values, game length, big marketing Castlevania would have needed at least 1.5 million to break even, probably 2 million. This is a $30 million budget game plus another $10 million for marketing.