| Beja-Beja said: Title Sales MGS4 3.31m Infinite Undiscovery .26m Ace Combat 6 .53m Tales Of Vesperia .24m Eternal Sonata (360) .28m Beautiful Katamari .32m Haze .42m Blue Dragon .51m Time Crisis 4 .44m Just curious? |
MGS4 - Yes, but not enough. MGS is a flagship title that most likely helped subsidize lesser-selling series. However, since MGS4 hasn't sold that well (after it's first awesome shipment), Konami hasn't seen the profits they'd of prefered.
Ace Combat 6 - Yes. VGC isn't including PAL sales data, which is most likely in the 200,000-300,000 range.
Infinite Undiscovery - Possibly. It really depends on shipment data to NA/PAL, since the copies were sold to retailers. The engine, it seems has been re-used in Star Ocean 4, which may have reduced overall costs to bring the game to market.
Tales of Vesperia - No. It hasn't shipped in PAL yet, which should tip the scales in it's favor. Also, it continues to do very well in Japan (top 20 for 2 months). I think that once MC/Famitsu data comes out for the fully 2008 report...We'll see ToV jump up on VGC's sell-through data.
Eternal Sonata - Doubtful. But it's in the same class as IU due to the engine similarity with Tales of Vesperia. This may have reduced its cost to where it wasn't too bad. Nevertheless, I don't think it made a profit.
Beautiful Katamari - Yes. Have you seen the graphics on the game? It was a budget title, and did rather well in the USA. Since it's PS2-quality, I think the dev costs were incredibly low.
Haze - No. I just don't see 400k being enough.
Blue Dragon - No. Not at 500k. I really dispute VGC's sellthrough data of Blue Dragon since PAL numbers seem very shoddy - any survey of PAL and Asiatic gamercards for Blue Dragon show that sellthrough was MUCH higher than the paltry 60,000 VGC reports. I would argue that sellthrough is closer to 600,000 or more, which would put it in category where it may have reached profitability.
Time Crisis 4 - Maybe. I tend to think that next-gen games need 500,000 (as per multiple devs) to look at profitability. Too close to call with certainty.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
