Cypher1980 on 15 November 2009
Any game that fails to cover development costs including Upfront investment by console manufacturers (to cover launch titles) is a FLOP (eg LAIR)
Any game that meets dev costs but only achieves a 20 percent return on investment as profit can be called a QUALIFIED FLOP (eg LBP)
Any game that meets dev costs but achieves less than a 40 percent return on investment as profit can be called a QUALIFIED SUCCESS (eg DEAD SPACE)
As above but 40 - 100 percent profit is called a SUCCESS (eg UNCHARTED)
As above but over 100 percent profit is called a HIT (eg MGS4)
As above but over 200 percent profit is called an OUT and OUT HIT (eg GTA IV, HALO 3)
