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

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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.

@leo-j

Its sad for sure, but the game wasn't all that great.

Maybe the MGS4 devs got a nice bit of funding in their exclusivity deal.

Or just a much better deal then Ninja Theory.  Kinda just sounds like Sony screwed them over in their deal.