Conduit sales!

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CDiablo said:

alfredofroylan said:

CDiablo said:

Yes really, Ive seen a ton of advertising for this game on Comedy Central and Cartoon Network(Adult Swim). I know its a new IP and could have great legs, but I am afraid that the dev costs+advertising(tv spots cost a lot) could result in the death of "hardcore" (or whatever I consider games that games that aren't petz, fitness games, shovelware and the like) games for the system. I dont know what they spent on the game, nor do I want to see it fail, but I am overall hoping for alot more sales in the future and am dissapointed about the launch numbers.

When you see ads in national Tv or big events like the Super Bowl or The World series you know they spend a lot in advertising..... Comedy Central and Adult Swim .... really?????

I just finished reading an article saying the average price of a national 30 second spot on the Disney channel is $133k. I would assume running spots during South Park, Daily Show, Family Guy and Monday Night Raw(WWE) are not going to cost less than 50k a spot. I also read another article that you can have a spot played on a cable channel like CNN, ESPN or HGtv in a local market 200x for 10k. So I dont know anymore, either way hope it all works out for this game and HV.

You've got to realize most of these businesses have contracts for advertising, so say they bought spots on Raw for months and they could run a number of their games on that spot, like on Raw I saw Madworld, House of the Dead, Sonic and the Black Night, Sonic Unleashed, The Conduit, and I believe one other title, now they don't have to pay that money for each different ad they run.

Plus this is all a business expence so at least part of it is probably written off on taxes.  In the end advertising isn't THAT expensive, and it's not going to be all for one game the expenses are spread out.