| outlawauron said: @ mibou But you have to understand that many if not most of the sales were at a lower price. I got a brand new crackdown for $10. It got very cheap, very fast. |
That's why I'm low balling the total revenue to 30 mil, if the game was a full price $60 dollar game, the revenue would generally equates to $37 for the publisher ($3 more goes to MS which in this case equates to $40)
Since the first 500k were sold within the first 4 week at full price you already have 37*500,000 = $18,500,000 in revenue. I am giving a very low appraisal of the remaining million copies sold with a $11,5 million in revenue which equals to $11.5 per copy.
Even if a lot of the game were sold are bargain price, the balance should more than cover the $11.5 per copy to reach my lowball estimate, surely the game didn't get as cheap as $10 overnight, especially considering more than 700,00 copies were sold within the first 13 weeks (aka the first quarter).
