Rougly how many sales are needed to break even on a high budget game?

[BengaBenga]

DMeisterJ said:

BengaBenga said:

shanbcn said:
I love how almost every big budget game is PS3 exclusive or at least on PS3. Can't see likes of 360 and Wii supporting big budget exclusive games.

 

You make it sound like that's a good thing...

Sure it seems great, however if Microsoft/Epic can make Gears for 10 million and Sony need an estimated 60 million for Killzone you can easily figure out who's more successfull. And more money means more means to invest in new games.

You can be sure that Konami won't ever do something like MGS 4 exclusive again.

We don't know how much Killzone 2 costs.  Let's not be absolute in terminology then.

 

I don't know why this is so important to you, but ok.

In my first post in this thread I already said that it's hard to know exactly how much the development of a game costs. Still if you keep track of things you can learn an awful lot and make some pretty educated guesses.

NJ5, FishyJoe and myself for example also read articles from financial publications like Forbes and Bloomberg where you can learn a lot more about the financials behind the industry. Once every while some info is released and by combining this we can get some ideas. Earnings releases also contain lots of info. A lot of small bits can paint quite an interesting pictue.