Lair did some 300K in US ,100K in Japan and we dont know the European numbers.It wasnt exactly a mega-flop considering it can have reached the 500K mark.
Haze did worse but its at 225K+ in US alone and it sold decently(for a western FPS thats it )in Japan.Again ,we dont know EU numbers ...but it must be close to 500K too.
Konami said that you needed some 500K sales to justify a HD game so those games pretty much did break even .
And at least Factor 5 was supported by Sony and the game was funded and distrubuted by SOny as a first party (well ,second party ) game.
PS3-haters just cant make their mind about these things.If its a PS3 exclusive is because Sony has paid for it or funded it ,but later on if it doesnt have a high success you change your mind and Sony didnt put a penny and the studio will fall because of it so no other studio should make PS3 exclusives.Your hathred is soo aparent .
As for Heavy Rain ,its funded and will be published by Sony ,Quantic Dreams will receive the money they need or have asked for and royalties over sales and that will be it .These kind of developments are the most secure for game developers .
Another thing is that ,if the game sucks royally (Haze didnt suck royally ,but it was a 65%-70% game in a genre with a lot of AAA games ,and Lair was an original game with tricky controls that was patched later on and is a good game in its own merits)you wont get too many new contracts and that can hurt you .
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