Only 30% of games recover their development costs!?

[Showertea]

Groucho said:

Showertea said:

That's a really bad comparison, man. Ratchet + Clank Future sold a little over a million copies (1.27) while Mario Galaxy sold almost 7. I could see them having similar dev. budgets, but the Mario game gave back a 5 fold higher profit. A better question is asking if Ratchet + Clank cost less to make than Carnival Games, which sold 1.89 Million copies so far. And it took six months to develop. http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2007/08/24/carnival-games-wii-developer-this-is-not-a-mini-game-collection/

 

Um...  So you're saying that, since SMG made much more money (gross) than the latest R&C (gross)... that Nintendo knew this ahead of time and thus invested more in it than a typical AAA platformer title, and thus the comparison is bad?

There are a lot of publishers who would *love* to live on your planet. =)

I'm saying that you can't compare Ratchet and Clank to Mario because Mario is a AAA Title that sells multimillions and Ratchet and Clank is an A title that only sells 1-2 million. You should compare Mario Galaxy to AAA titles like MGS, Halo 3, or GTA4 which all cost 50+ Million to make, or compare Ratchet and Clank to other games that sell 1-2 Million like Carnival Games, which probably cost less than 5 million overall.