noname2200 said:
Ragnarsson said:
While most HD games need to sell over a million copies to break even, Wii games have smaller budgets, so they don't need to sell as much. "Great Sales" is not a synonym for "Great Success". For example, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (the movie) made more than 400 million dollars worldwide, while Saw made approximately 100 million dollars worldwide. If you think "oh, so Prince Caspian was much more successful", you are definitely wrong: PC had a 200 million $ budget (not including advertising), and it needed more than double of that to start turning in some profit; Saw cost slightly over a million dollars to make... now do the math.
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Just a quick note: while you're right about most of your post, the average HD game only needs to sell 500k or so to break even. Of course, almost all of the HD games that people are interested in have a larger budget than average, and thus need to sell over a million, but that does not apply to the many small and mid-sized HD games (which, again, "only" have to crack 500k).
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I was only thinking of the "supah-tera-big-budget" (but not always) AAA games, I should have made it clear.
My bad...
