Marvelous Financial Reports - Interesting Comments about Wii and PSP Sales

[jarrod]

outlawauron said:

jarrod said:
I don't think ARF or LKS were low budget, both were in development over a year, thoroughly voiced and both had pretty high profile musicians working on them. Then again, both also had like zero promotional budget, like all MMV games.

Muramasa's pretty clearly the lone "profitable" Wii game given it almost met expectations and Vanilla Ware being a pretty tiny, low budget dev. It's actually Vanilla Ware's 2nd best selling game.


OP left out the PSP figures too...

Valhalla Knights 2 Battle Stance (JP) 35k
Valhalla Knights 2 (EU) 3k
Hitman Reborn! Battle Arena 2 (JP) 41k
Half Minute Hero (JP) 70k

Muramasa didn't make them any money. Little King's Story did.

They didn't specify in the financials which specific games made/lost money, they just gave platform ratios.  Considering Muramasa almost hit it's targets (47k shipped, 56k expected), while LKS didn't even hit half it's targets (130k shipped, 320k expected), I'm going to guess Muramasa was their lone profitable Wii game.

Their unprofitable PSP release is definitely going to be VK2 EU though.