txrattlesnake on 21 June 2009
According to my math, they both needed to sell 750,000 copies in order to bring true profit to their publisher, and I don't think either one has reached 750,000 yet.
(games and movies have to earn twice what they cost to make in order to earn satisfactory profit, so if both games cost $30.00 in the store and they took ten million to make. They would have to earn back 20 million dollars (24 million counting advertising), so if they sold a million that would be 3 times what they cost to make and more than enough to justify sequels. If they sold 500,000 copies, they would only be earning 1.5 what they cost to make which isn't enough. So, they both needed to sell 750,000 to earn back twice what they cost to make.)
