Conduit June sales (NPD - 2 weeks) - 71,913

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JEDE3 said:

daveJ said:

huh I don't trust these numbers

Speaking as someone who has worked at various game companies over the years, Well you shouldnt trust those numbers since they're far too low.
Even a layman should be able to quickly see that if those numbers were on average all thats needed to attain profitability then you wouldnt have so many of the game companies posting losses.

I'd assume the numbers are for first party. Considering he is pretty much saying about 40 dollars per copy for a Ps3 game and 30 dollars per copy for Wii... which sounds right. Also if they were any higher youd have companies going out of business more.

Well for starter those numbers don't include marketing costs which can easilly reach 5 million$ + for a game that has TV adds ( someone mentionned Left 4 Dead had a 10 million marketing budget, MW2 will probably have like a 30-40 million$ marketing budget..)

 

So add marketing to development costs and you can already double the number from The Source...