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Loud_Hot_White_Box on 15 October 2008
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BengaBenga said:
shanbcn said:
DKII said:
Except it cost 10 times as much.

 

Trolling is not allowed. Back up your words or F off.

 

I hope you're kidding here, but I must say I totally miss the humour.

Although the development costs are not known, we do know that they needed 1 million copies sold on launch day to be on track. It's obvious that MGS 4 was much more expensive than any previous MGS and is among the most expensive games ever. The average PS3 game is reported to cost around $20 million, we can minimally double that to get to MGS4 numbers. That excludes advertising.

Konami definitely can't be happy with the sales, cause they don't care about attach rate. I'm sure they made a profit, but I'm sure that when they started the development they budgetted on at least MGS3 level sales.

 

No.  How could anyone figure that out?  I remember the statement that you are misconstruing like many did when it was reported, but it doesn't mean anything.

And, wasn't Kojima a perfectionist before PS3?  Didn't the PS2 MGS games cost more than $4million, or what?  

Regarding sales of all the older MGS games: don't they include copies sold at lower prices well after launch, so that both Konami and Sony would be getting a smaller cut from each sale?  And haven't all MGS4 sales been at full price so far?  Just considerations.