| axumblade said: Yes. A game that is based around its physics engine (which was either used on or inspired from Ragdoll Kung Fu by the way) and creativity probably cost them millions upon millions despite being created in a studio with about 50 people. Also the advertising, which pretty much seems to be just showing in-game footage the whole time, costs almost nothing to make and I really highly doubt that it's costing much for them to advertise on tv stations like Cartoon Network, Fox, or Comedy Central. Or the advertisements in magazines? I just saw a 2 page spread advertising Natsume, so I'll just assume that Natsume spent millions for advertising those 2 pages. ;) yeah. that's realistic. Oh, you're probably referring to those murals that were from earlier this year...I think they might have cost a pretty penny but that's about the only advertising that I see costing them anything, which they have probably made back due to people downloading costumes even, if not now, then they will make the money back when the MGS pack comes out because it gives the game the SHMUP aspect. Oh wow. A bundle boosting sales? That's terrible. Especially considering that people have the choice of buying a game in the bundle or by itself. Your "kung fu panda" argument is now voided because there IS that choice, where as there is no choice for the 360 ones unless you can find it. Almost every game "bombs" in Japan unless it's on a Nintendo product or the PSP. Big deal. So you're saying that after over a month, when a game has been out, if it still manages to maintain about 40k a week, it's not considered legs? It might not be as strong of legs as CoD4 had earlier this year but it is still pretty good for an exclusive Sony title. |
Dude.. your talking about nationwide stations.. that's at least $100.000 for a 30 sec spot.. and that is when it's with a normal watched program.. for instance at the Superball a commercial would cost $2.000.000 for those 30 sec... that times lets say 5 times each day on the same channel.. you do the math...
And cheap to make because of ingame graphics? LMAO.. you must spend hours and hours on playing and watching the game to get the right footage.. making commercials is not cheap.. a good TV commercial is at least $ 300.000...
Magazine ads? depending on the numbers of sales of the magazine it could easily run up to a few million a week if they advertise in a few popular magazines... Don't ever think advertising is cheap...
Face the future.. Gamecenter ID: nikkom_nl (oh no he didn't!!)
