Gamerace on 09 March 2009
| jammy2211 said: I don't think SEGA has done bad on the HD platforms - Iron Man / Viking of Asregard / Beijing 2008 / Condemned 2 all hit over a million on PS360, Unleashed will join them soon. They support Nintendo because their type of games suit the console more. Better suited demographic, better suited style of game etc. I couldn't see them turning House of the Dead or Jet Set Radio into a HD epic :/. They've got plenty of HD stuff in the works still, just it doesn't seem to get much hype. I guess SEGA just arn't capable enough to make stand-out games compared to the likes of Activsion / EA / Capcom. |
Don't forget, 1-2m is about the break even point for a typical HD game that costs $20-40m (according to Edge Magazine) so none of those games were really profittable. In comparison Sonic and the Secret Rings sold 2m with a development cost of about 1/3 or less than Unleashed. So it was easily profitable after the first 500k
