Sky Crawlers, Crawling in Australia thanks to......... Atari?

[noname2200]

Mr.Y said:

noname2200 said:
Atari also picked up Sam and Max: Season Two on the Wii despite Season One's lackluster sales. Shouldn't Atari be focusing on NOT losing money...?

Ah well, I'm interested in S&M, and also interested in Sky Crawlers, so if they care to bring it to the U.S....

 

Sam and Max is a port, I'm sure they're not losing any money.

I'm not so sure. Sure, the game's all finished, but it still takes time and manpower to port it from the PC to the Wii (the credits for just the Wii crew was surprisingly lengthy...). Plus, the publisher's only taking a slice of that $30, and it costs just as much to manufacture and ship this $30 game as it does a $50 game.

60,000 copies worldwide doesn't strike me as something that was too profitable, especially since I suspect it's being overtracked (not surprisingly, the site seems to have trouble with games that sell in the four-digit range, probably since it's hard to accurately extrapolate figures from such a small sample size).