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ZechsMerquise on 17 October 2010
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Slimebeast said:
Zlejedi said:
Slimebeast said:

Both Enslaved and Castlevania bombed so hard it's not even funny. Millions and millions $ lost.

Ninja Theory is lucky they secured the contract to make Devil MayCry5 for Capcom or else they would have been forced to close (they will disappear after DMC5 though).


Castlevania will have good legs from word of mouth which should carry it into 1,5-2M combined plus whatever they get from DLC and they are already working on sequel which will allow them to reuse assets.

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.

Quote for truth. You defo seem to know what you're talking about. The break even points for games like this are really high. I remember when Spore came out on the PC, they said even with a million in sales it would still need to do more in terms of DLC and expansion sales to make it truly profitable. Big names like Patrick Stewart = big money.