jman8 said:
If each game sold for an average retail price of $60, then the game grossed $15 million. Subtract $10/game for what the retailer takes away, and subtract a liberal $10/game for what Sony takes away in the form of royalties, and Tecmo gets $10 million put into their bank account. IMO no way it cost them more than $10 million to develop and market and package and ship this game considering the groundwork for the title was already laid out 3 years ago, and a pretty small group of programmers were assigned to this job as a secondary project for Team Ninja. Itagaki himself barely had much to do with the game. And if that 500,000 sold to retailers number is true, then you can just double the above numbers because Tecmo gets paid based on how many they sell to retailers, NOT consumers. |
$10 million isn't bad, but it could of sold 2-3 times the amount of that on the 360... Tecmo could of made $20-30 million dollars.
Maybe this is a strategy for the developer.. they could technically release NG 2 1/2 on the PS3 in a couple years, then NG 3 back on the 360 and so forth.
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