First party PS3 games need to sell a million to break even.

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MontanaHatchet said:

Nutboy said:
Wait, didn't Nintendo say SMG needed 250K to break even?

Anyway, this means that only 16 of their 21 first party games for Ps3 have broken even.

...What?

I think it depends on the game, though. Sony may be focusing on some of their higher selling games (Resistance, Ratchet & Clank), rather than smaller titles like Singstar and the MLB and NBA series. Games that include peripherals were also likely expected to make profit regardless because of the peripherals that were included.

Yeah, he's talking about games with $20m - $30m budgets. Clearly Singstar didn't have that sort of budget, and also makes extra money from DLC too.