Kantor on 15 November 2009
| Cypher1980 said: 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) |
LBP made a 20% profit with 2.5 million sales?
With 40 people on the dev team?
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