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tonio_13 on 11 August 2010
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jarrod said:
Sorcery said:

It's absurd to think that they didn't break even, there is no reason that a 1.5 million copy seller can't break even, especially when it never got a price drop. $90 million in revenue, and they lost money? LOL. I know that about $20 mil goes to retailers, and a good chunk went to Sony since they published, but even then.

 

Enslaved isn't going to save Ninja Theory either. It was probably in their best interest to stay platform exclusive since us PS3 fans hype good exclusive games to death (see: success stories like Valkyria Chronicles, Demon's Souls, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Heavy Rain), but now they'll be lost in a see of multiplatform games.

3DGH bombed hard, it sold only 13k total in Japan.  Also, it's likely overtracked by VGC in America, it's numbers here likely would've placed it in the NPD top 20 for both May (64k via VGC) and June (77k via VGC), and it didn't place for either.

Valkyria's probably embarrassingly overtracked for the Americas.  A (questionable) NPD placed it's US ltd around 150k last fall... VGC tends to do this with core niche games for some reason, it also happened with Demon's Souls.  If Sega had been happy with Valkyria sales, they wouldn't have jumped to PSP for the sequel...

3DGH sold 28k in Japan, and this game probably cost nothing to make. In no way this bombed.

Sega told in the past that they were happy by the spike in VC sales. VC 2 surely was already in development.