To all of those that think SEGA's both hardcore games bombed.

[psrock]

noname2200 said:

psrock said:

My idea of it bombing has always been on sales since that's really the only aspect we got some decent info on. The developers don't tell us how much these games cost them. I have only seen this making a profit excuse this generation because it's the pefect way to cover bad sales of a game we expect some good volumes from.

That seems quite unwise, seeing as how it ignores a very vital part of the picture. If raw sales were all that mattered, EA would still be profitable and Phoenix Games would have gone belly-up long ago, so we know that we can't go by that metric. I'll freely grant that we rarely get full figures for the development+marketing cost of any given game, but to take that fact and thus ignore that entire factor is doing yourself a big disservice.

EA had major bombs as well, they had a terrible holiday period. thus contributing to their losses. But most of you underestimate the cost to make games for the Wii as well. It's smaller, but as the game gets bigger so does the cost.