| LipeJJ said: Nice numbers, just goes to show how stupid Konami was with the whole Kojima situation. |
| Wright said: Well, game was profitable. At least Kojima and Koji Team would be proud of achieving such sales. |
| Skeetys said: Konami was so stupid to not trust Kojima. |
The game in as of so far likely has not been profitable (factoring in development, marketing, and other cursory costs for the total budget), and if it has become so it has crawled to that point in packaged sales or been carried through DLC. The amount of money they will make from this, if they ever get the project to be profitable on the whole, will be too small to justify... and this is in a scenario where they even chopped off the end of the game to just get the product shipped and finished.
...Hence why Kojima was fired. He took too long and ballooned the budget for far too little return. They didn't fire him for being capable, they fired him for the opposite reason from a bottomline perspective.
