Heavenly Sword - 77.445 first week- flop or not flop sales?

[FishyJoe]

TheBigFatJ said:

Deviation59 said:

Viper1 said:
Any game that takes 4 years and 500 people to get 6 hours worth of game and only 77k sales the first week is a flop.

Well, I don't know where you're getting 500 people (the dev team is closer to 50), the game takes around seven hours to play without a bit of fluff or wasted time and it actually sold 96k the first week. And it's at ~184k right now.

I suspect they'd have to sell at least 500k units to make a profit on HS.

That's way too low. With a $20 million dollar development and multi-million dollar marketing campaign, this is a very expensive game.