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Graves said:
snowdog said:
The 1m mark tends to be the benchmark for 'outstanding' sales these days on any platform. The 300,000 mark is generally the break-even benchmark for Wii titles as House of The Dead Overkill has shown (although that does depend on the budget used for the title obviously). I'll be very interested to see how much it manages to sell after a month in each territory, I'll guarantee you that it'll be generating profits for Sega by that time.

I can see publishers fighting tooth and nail to get hold of The Grinder, although I suspect that Sega already have a deal in place dependant on sales of The Conduit.

I don't agree with 1 million being the benchmark. House of The Dead 2&3 selling a million was pretty outstanding. I'm sure that exceeded Sega's expectations given its ports of old games and basically no advertising. Killzone 2 getting towards 2 million hasn't impressed a lot of people. The Conduit is some where in the middle of those two.

It's kind of the "magic number", as it's the same as a platinum record. This is regardless of actual cost, although unti the HD systems, it did guarantee a profit on all but the most expensive games (GTA, Final Fantasy).



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