| Seraphic_Sixaxis said: i heard it took alot of money to make Kz2, will the company go the way of factor 5? |
And I heared that KZ2 wasnt as expensive as many people thought it was somewhere between 20-30 Million:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3155511
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killzone_2 (over 20 Million Dollar under production)
Just to mention Crysis 1 cost just 20 Million Euro. I dont think that HD game development is as costly as some people say thats the reason why Developers are satisfied with HD games sales.
And Sony games have to sell less to break even because they dont have to pay fees to themselfes. Kz2 was profitable. Like most HD games if a game like GT5 cost as much as Shenmue (60 Mln). I think most of the HD games are actually profitable. Kz2 offers also multiplayer maps and a lot of people have them because the multiplayer maps are as full as the normal maps .
They are satisfied with the sales because KZ1 sold just 750k Kz2 tripled this the break even happened probably months ago. Maybe even in the first month. No company plans a game to sell 4 times or even 5 times as much as the precedessor so you can be sure they spend not too much money for it.
To Op
The Game sold 2.2 Million yet and will probably reach 2.5 Million LTD. Sales will pick up again. The market is flooded with FPS so it can happen that a game has a weak period.
