tonio_13 said:
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.
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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...
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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.
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No, according to Famitsu 3DGH sold 13k total. Not 13k before it dropped off the charts, but 13k for all of last year... it was a gigantic bomb, especially since it came post-slim and had a fair bit of promotion and advertising. I have no idea where you're getting 28k? Media Create gives it as 16k and even VGC says it's just 15k.
Valkyria bump came with budget pricing, which happened less than a year after it released, and over a year before Valkyria 2 did. Sega said they moved Valkyria 2 to PSP because they wanted to reach a wider audience with the franchise (which was probably also the reason for dumbing down the art/setting/story).
edit: oh, just looked, VGC actually says 28k. :/ Well, Fami and MC have it at half that, and Fami covers 70% of the market directly...
