Gears of War 2 had a $12 million development budget

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JaggedSac said:

So the profit margin on this is insane.

$12 million budget.

5.11 million sales.

Lets say an average of $40 per sale. This would be minus the retailer profit.

$204,400,000 in sales.

Minus MS's publishing percentage EPIC definitely made a very nice profit on this game. Probably enough to allow MS to purchase the exclusive rights to the next one.

 

I am just taking a stab at these numbers.  Anyone know the actual percentages and sold to retail costs?

I wanted to say it is probably less cause a lot of those sales came when it was cheaper (in some Eu countries).  But then they made more than 40$ with the games sold in Europe.