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

[noname2200]

Kasz216 said:

noname2200 said:

--OkeyDokey-- said:
If Yakuza broke even then I'm sure Valkyria Chronicles did too.

But wait, I thought HD games needed to sell multi-millions to do that? lulz

The commonly-quoted break even point for HD consoles is around 500,000 sold. Yakuza 3 is at the break-even point.

Quick! What are Yakuza 3's LTD sales?!

http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=26680&region=All

 

So without the Kenzan engine it might of took 1 million sales.

Interesting.

 

That's not too surprising, to be honest, since from what I can see this is a pretty high-quality game; reusing the engine may have saved a ton of time (and therefore cash), but an engine is barely half the battle.