twesterm on 20 July 2007
| rasone77 said: IF a dev spends 15,000,000 dolars on a game total gross expenses. (Including packaging shipping, paying employees advertising ect...) and a game costs $60 it's simple math. 15,000,000 divided by 60 is the total number of units they need to sell to break even. which is 250,000. at 20Million that number becomes 333 Thousand. They may have to sell more than a Wii game but most games can easily sell 250,000 no matter how crappy. |
For a last gen game the numbers for a console game to break even are about 800,00-1,000,000. In order for those higher budget games of this generation, they will have to sell many more. I have the numbers of what a quality game for last gen costs, just not on me at the moment. After work if I'm still thinking about I can find that info.
