The Conduit - 140k debut, 1.13m lifetime prediction by SimExchange

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SaviorX said:

famousringo said:

hisiru said:
140k? Wooow, good numbers! :)

@Edit: 140k at full price isn't 7m dolares? I think that this game is already giving profit.

the publisher only sees about 40% of retail, so it's closer to 3 million. I'm guessing that this game cost Sega a little shy of 8-9 million to publish and promote. Things look good, but there's a way to go yet.

I also agreed upon that number a few days ago.

 

The Conduit will make that money back within the span of a month. Every copy sold after August will be profit.

Well retail stores only make about 5 dollars per new game sold, say 50 cents per disc and 50 cents for packaging cause they buy in bulk and then some odd cents per game for shipping (also large quantities) you can round it up to 7 to 8 dollars taken away for retail costs. I'd say its safe to assume 40 dollars is split between Nintendo, HVS, and SEGA if I remember right fees for Nintendo are like 15% I might be wrong there, but I remember a % coming up as to the reason why Halo DS never made it past the first builds.  

So 6 dollars to Nintendo and 34 dollars are split between HVS and SEGA in some odd %, it did not cost SEGA 8 to 9 million to publish and promote The Conduit I'd say HVS and SEGA combined have invested between 8 to 10 million, publishers taking more % from HVS depending on if SEGA gave them more money and time for development.

If my figures are right as of right now the money for all copies sold to customers is 4,760,000, they're probably already shipped out more copies to retailers so they've probably got at least 5 to 6 million from copies sold to retailers.