Heavenly Sword sold about 1.5m but devs didn't break even

[jarrod]

darthdevidem01 said:

jarrod said:

leo-j said:
that's really sad..

the game is 5 hours, and the budget was higher than MGS4s potentially.

Very sad

Eh, more than twice as many people worked on MGS4, and it was in development twice as long... pretty sure it's budget likely dwarfed Heavenly Sword's.

The MGS4 devs said they need to sell 1 million on day 1 to break even....they did that.

Ofcourse Heavenly Sword sold over 1 million over a looooong period of time.

Sure... but that doesn't mean MGS4 was lower budget than Heavenly Sword.  It just means Konami had different variables and likely accounting.  I'm guessing Sony forked over a bit to keep exclusivity too...