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Kasz216 on 22 March 2009
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Impulsivity said:
Kasz216 said:
Impulsivity said:
http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/4386.html they're trying on the sales front. Already getting a budget re-release in Japan.

Even with a new engine, they had very limited scope outside the battle system. There were few cutscenes and those were animated (not expensive CGI), there wasn't much in the way of a map system much less a full world outside of battles which certainly saved on production as well. I mean even with a new from scratch battle engine I doubt it was anywhere near 40 or 50 million. Games like Mirror's Edge don't even cost that and it certainly took a LOT more work to make that game look and play the way it does.

I'm not saying games like Mirror's Edge are better (I do love mirror's edge though, so its close), I'm saying JRPGs are very cost effective since they are built for a market which sustains about 200-300k in sales even for pretty good games.

What i'm saying is your numbers are off.  20-30K isn't a "cheap" game and 500K likely isn't going to make your money back on it.

 

 

   Remember when a game sells in Japan it sells for about 80 dollars (given exchange rates) and the same is true when a game sells in Europe.  Even the budget version of the game is about 44 dollars US.  Given most of the sales are Europe/Japan sales it is more profitable then it would seem at first.  Lets say 70 bucks is the avg sale price (given that some of the 500k will be budget sales and most will be in Europe/Japan) that means selling 500k would be 35 million retail.  Sega will have at least 25-30 million of that as take home revenue.  The chance of them losing money on Valk Chronicles seems low.

Except Sega is japanese.... so everything would be in Yen.

So instead of making a killing on the exchange rate they're losing money on it.

Also companies  have stated that your average game takes something like 1 million to break even.

500K makes back about 8.6 million accodring to Namco... when there crappy launch games cost them that.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6162509.html

Back when it launched it was 500K for Namco to break even with games like... Ridge Racer... and Gundam Crossfire.