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

[Viper1]

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.

There is typically $15-20.00 per sale that comes back the dev/pub from $45.00 wholesale.

 

500k would net them only $7.5 - $10.00 million.  They need a million to break even.