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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - The Last Story is XSEED's "most successful title to date”!

Gamerace on 21 November 2012

Maybe this will encourage them to bring over Pandora's Tower or Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly (both Wii) or even better, EarthSeeker (but that's really a faint hope)



 

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noname2200 on 21 November 2012

So successful that they're dropping the price this soon after release?






I wanted Ys to be the successful title(s).



AndrewWK on 21 November 2012

How much does it cost to develop a game this? If a game like Batman Arkham City would sell 500k units it would an disaster.



PullusPardus on 21 November 2012

I still have to get this game and Xenoblade =[

also can someone tell me how Wii games look on Wii U ?



noname2200 on 21 November 2012
AndrewWK said:
How much does it cost to develop a game this? If a game like Batman Arkham City would sell 500k units it would an disaster.

The game almost certainly underperformed, but this quote comes from XSEED, the publisher in North America only. They had nothing to do with the development, and are only publishing it because the company that did pay for the development costs, Nintendo, passed on publishing it in America.



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oni-link on 21 November 2012

Good maybe we will see an adjustment in the sales section this time around. MosDef undertracked in the America's then!!! Now hopefully we will get a localization for Pandora's Tower LE, since the Wii U is backward compatible and many PRF supporters will buy these games.



NoirSon on 21 November 2012
noname2200 said:
So successful that they're dropping the price this soon after release?


Hey, they can afford to, Nintendo aided in the costs of publication and their Europe branch did most of the translation. XSEED just finished up the leg work Nintendo didn't want to do for this one since they put out Xenoblade.



DieAppleDie on 21 November 2012

hmm..guys 500k at 50$ each is 25m $, i would be surprised if this game had cost them more than 5m



DieAppleDie on 21 November 2012
Soriku said:
DieAppleDie said:
hmm..guys 500k at 50$ each is 25m $, i would be surprised if this game had cost them more than 5m


Where are you getting that 500k number? It only sold 180k in Japan, NPD's first month had it at 50k (VGC is likely overtracking it a bit since VGC has it at 120k). VGC has EU ar 90k which may or may not be accurate (I'd bet on a little overtracked though). Even going by VGC numbers it's only at 420k.


OK DUDE....400K AT 50$ IS 20M$, i doubt it has costed them more than 5m to make it



Boutros on 21 November 2012
DieAppleDie said:
Soriku said:
DieAppleDie said:
hmm..guys 500k at 50$ each is 25m $, i would be surprised if this game had cost them more than 5m


Where are you getting that 500k number? It only sold 180k in Japan, NPD's first month had it at 50k (VGC is likely overtracking it a bit since VGC has it at 120k). VGC has EU ar 90k which may or may not be accurate (I'd bet on a little overtracked though). Even going by VGC numbers it's only at 420k.


OK DUDE....400K AT 50$ IS 20M$, i doubt it has costed them more than 5m to make it

They don't make 50$ per unit LOL

Money from a 50$ game goes to retailers and transports and publishers and developers and console manufacturers and etc.

I'd say only about 20$ goes to Mistwalker (or Nintendo depending on what was the deal). So that makes roughly a little less than $10 million. The game was in development for at least a couple of years and so I really don't think they made that much money with the game. But considering it was financed by Nintendo who cares LOL

But for a publisher like XSEED who simply bought rights to publish it in NA surely made a good amount of money out of the deal.