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Kasz216 on 08 March 2010
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kowenicki said:
Grimes said:
CGI-Quality said:
Grimes said:

You probably also have to add marketing, support and miscellaneous expenses. Marketing could be significant as some games have a marketing budget nearly equal to the development budget.

Just making a profit is not the goal. The goal is to make a LOT of profit.

The goal is to make money. God of War will do that.

Premier franchises are expected to make enough to cover losses on less successful projects and projects in development which are not making money and enough to reward investors.


Agreed...

If a studio or publisher doesnt make a LOT of profit from a major release then it has problems. Those big games subsidise the smaller more niche titles.

Well unless your activision who interestingly uses the Niche titles to apparently prop up the HUGE IPs.

I think that was them anyway.

I think it's less to cover niche titles, and more to cover UNRELEASED titles.  Since what... only 1 in 5 games every get released that have money spent on them?