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Depends on the marketing/distribution costs as well as how much it cost to bribe reviewers. (JK)



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Think of it like this. 2.8mil x $60 = $168 million.... and it cost like $20mil to make right?

Still money has to go to the stores selling it.



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SpartenOmega117 said:

It is amazing how a game like uncharted 2 sold only 2 million copies. That is still a lot but even halo 3 odst (not that great of a game) managed to sell 4.5 million copies. Anyways did sony and naught dog end up making a profit form uncharted 2?

I think it will end up selling over 3.5 million copies, whe it's all said and done. Also the game has made way more than a profit, as it had a budget of less than 25 millions.



(a) the game had a similar budget to uncharted 1 (stated by ND in an interview)
(b) ND was aiming for sales similar to uncharted 1
uncharted 2 is tracking alot higher than uncharted 1 (i.e., only 30k short of it's predecessor while being on the market for approximately 12 months shorter).

Given (a), (b) and , I think it's safe to conclude that uncharted 2 has already turned a profit.



Yes, they already made a profit.
I'm going to throw some random numbers here.

Let's say the total cost for everything is 60 million (including development, advertisement, etc.)
Let's say they make around 30$ profit per game sold.

($30 x 2.8 million) - $60 million = $24 million in profit



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Direct profit from this game came at about 1.2m sales at least... It sold over twice that.



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wholikeswood said:
I'm going to speculate... easily.

Uncharted 2 costs 20M just like Uncharted 1, right?

Let's talk about the US sales and use a low price (just to make sure that we won't have an ilogical number):

$20 (low price) x1.34M (number of people who bought this game)= 26.80M

 

This would be MUCH higher with real price + other regions.

This number would be MUCH higher with real price + other regions.

Did Uncharted 2 make a profit? Easily, as wholikeswood said. I am going to speculate and say that they earned +$70m.



Yeah im pretty sure they have made a good sized profit. And will continue to do so for a while



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i remember a interview with one of the developers where he said he hopes it will sell 2,5 Millions, because then they would make another sequel for sure.

 

Edit: i found the thread and some pretty funny predictions to go with it

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=88589&page=1

 



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If UC2 made a profit,i would say easily.