| 8888brocoli123 said: FFXIII, this game is going to sell less than any other previous Final Fantasy, and with bigger budgets and production cost i have a hard time believing this was a good investment. |
Lets say they sell just 5 Million (I think it will sell 6 Mio or more). 5 Mio *60 Dollar is 300 Million Dollar. Subtract 60 Mio development cost 240 Mio Dollar. lets say 80 Mio for Advertisment package shipping and profit for retailers and Sony. So they earned 160 million dollar and this is conservative even if it sells as good as FFX-2 (it has similar numbers yet) it would be more then 5 Mio. And lets not forget that in Jaoan the game started at 8500 yen which is 95 Dollar the lowest price at amazon is still 7400 yen about 85 Dollar. Ofcourse its cheaper somewhere but the average price is still high.
In Europe the Game costs 50-60 euro atleast thats 80 Dollar or 7200 yen they will sell some at budget price (the first 5 mln definetly not) but the first sales are full price in Japan they sold 1.5 Million at 80 Dollar then the Lightning edition for 500-600 Dollar Square got a nice cut there too. FF13 will be the most profitable game for Square enix this Generation. They will earn good sums. If FF13 is not profitable a 5million+ game then nothing is profitable anymore. In the thread stated a lot of people that just some games are struggeling the big ones are lucrative. Those games are extremly lucrative and FF is one of them Be sure Square will earn TONS with FF. It will earn more then DQ since its selling world wide very good plus its not over yet in Japan it will crawl to 2 mio atleast during the next weeks. Wait for next week normaly FF which are released on small userbase tend to be not as frontloaded as FF released on huge userbase. You could give dozends of good examples but you took one of the games which are a extremly lucrative. And which is probably the most lucrative game from SquareEnix released this gen (not counting future releases).
FF13 will be in the Top 20 games which brought the most money for their companys in this gen. There is simply no discussion about it. Just because it sells 200k less first week then other FFs it doesnt mean it will not be profitable. make yourself a calculation you will see for yourself that this is just wrong. Plus minus 500k is not much of a difference if you talk about games which sell 5 Mio 6 Mio or more. Why do you think MS was so eager to pay for FFXIII a bucketload of money just to get also a version ? Why do you think everybody talks about FF do you really think that a difference of 200k first week in Japan will make such an impact that the game went from extremly profitable to not profitable ?
Even if it would sell half of FF12 sales it would be still profitable. games which sale over 1 million probably dont have as big profits as before but I doubt that they are considered a failure. It also depends at what price they were sold. Its just that 1 million is not impressive anymore but a 5 Million+ game is still huge and will profit definetly.
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