noname2200 on 22 April 2009
| johnsobas said: wow with those japanese sales yakuza only broke even? What the hell were they expecting? I thought the sales were good, but if they didn't make a decent profit yet you gotta wonder about what they were thinking. |
It's the cost of doing business in the HD era. You may have noticed all the recent rash of studio closures...
In fairness, the idea is that you'll get the mega-hit of the month, which CAN be quite lucrative. The problem is that there are only so many winners each month, and statistically speaking you're probably not going to be it.
| --OkeyDokey-- said: There's no way it could bomb THAT hard in the west. Are people seriously suggesting it would do as badly as this game? http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=1392®ion=All |
This site has incomplete Western data on Yakuza and Yakuza 2. However, the folks at NeoGAF have data stating that the first Yakuza did 50k in the U.S., and the sequel barely pulled out 30k. I have not seen either figure contested. THAT'S what we're seriously suggesting it will do.
