Shadowblind said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Barozi said:
Everybody who thinks SO4 had a possibility to surpass SO3 sales should just go home.
SO4 did not flop, but it hasn't sold great either. However it's on a good way to be one of the best selling JRPG's of this gen. Maybe some disillusionated fanboys didn't notice that JRPGs on ALL console platforms are selling much worse than last generation.
Now to those people who scream "oooh SE you fail !!!".
They released the game on the 360 for a reason. They knew it would not sell that many copies in Japan, but they surely received a bunch of money from Microsoft. Besides that the game engine was practically paid by MS. Never forget, MS published Infinite Undiscovery together with Square Enix.
and finally just LOOOOL to that guy who thinks SO4 failed quality wise. It has about the same aggregate score as the previous Star Ocean games. |
so3 sold about 2 million units. so4 doesnt look like it will see more than lo but ill still say 1mil (im being generous since lo is still 90k away from that ) se is losing about 1million in sales. unless ms paid 25million(which again being generous since devs get about 27 dollars per copy) it was a bad business decision. i say no more than 15million(which again is being generous considering the gsme probably didnt cost that much) .
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Jumping in here for a minute to say this game probably didn't even cost 10 million, let alone 25. The engine, as previously stated, was paid for and funded by Microsoft, and that is usually by far the mostly costly thing(I have heard) in a game. And I doubt SO3 really got 2 million sales; in fact in the US it only sold 630k by 2006, and in Japan 533,373 by 2008.
Going by Wikipedia here, since we don't have any other sources. And I highly doubt it sold the rest in Others(could have...but I doubt it. If that is actually true then this thread shouldn't have even existed until it went on sale in Europe anyway.)
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i didnt mean how much it cost the company but how much it cost... so.. im having trouble getting what i mean out. ps3 typing is hard and breaks your chain of thought so it comes out broken. vgc shows so3 1.29 without others and brett probably hasnt updated those numbers in quite a while
