DMeisterJ on 18 January 2009
| KylieDog said: I stand by less than 2 million sales not being a 'massive flop'. |
Let's break apart anything less than 2 million (say 1.5 million).
With an MSRP of 30 being likely as that is what DS games generally go for, we're talking revenue of only 45 million dollars. Now production costs, and everything else we don't know, but I can safely say that over the 2-300 million GTA: LCS brought in, profit on PSP/2 would have far outweighted the DS version.
It won't be a flop, but it won't put the amount of cash in the pockets of R* that the PSP ones did. And remember that Take 2 is not doing well financially. They can't have a game break even, or just make a small profit. GTA games are big, and need to be big.
I'm sure the game won't flop, and make some money, but TT doesn't need "some money" they need "tons of money".
