Sega talks sales: Yakuza 3 broke even, 7th Dragon very good, MadWorld meh

[Kasz216]

outlawauron said:

Kasz216 said:

Aj_habfan said:
Hey, Yakuza is still selling here people it's not dead. I imagine they are going to need to ship more, as that 500k shipment is drying up.

Yeah, i'm hoping it legs out to a million like i predicted.  I got opening week about right i think... so it could be on track.

Still... using the Kenzan engine i just thought it would of broke even at 250,000K.

Seriously? I don't think there is a way for a large profile game like Yakuza 3 to break even that low even with an engine already.

It's large profile... for Japan.

Which means it should have a budget that is set for selling to one of three markets... and that market being the smallest market of the three.

Plus an engine is like... half the cost.

Most "Japan only" or might as well be games tend to have low budgets.