Most anticipated games from 2009, by genre

[shio]

gebx said:

shio said:

If anything the budget only helps those PC games' higher positions, because they would need considerably less sales than Halo Wars to reach the same profit. But we can only assume, since we don't really know their budgets.

 

I thought you ranked the games by sales... or are you just changing your story because a dirty "console" game will sell better than your elitist PC game??

I'm ordering the games based on success, something like profit. I've taken into account the budgets a few times, though not much. In some cases you can make a direct comparison in sales, but there are games with business models that don't focus on selling the box, like Quake Live, Battlefield Heroes, Aion, etc... The best way to compare games with such difference is to simply compare through profit or revenue.

For example, before I had Red Alert 3's expansion above Halo Wars because I thought it would probably go on sale for $40 on Xbox 360 and PC, and it would have a much lower development cost than HW and added bonus of DD's higher profit margin. Then EA announced the expansion would be sold for $20 exclusively through PC's digital distribution - no 360 version, no retail. Even though I think it will sell alot more copies than if it were $40, it will make less revenue. Now the expansion is below Halo Wars.

I may lower down Cities XL soon, because I might be too optimistic, but not Anno 1704 and Demigod.