Crysis Sold 3+ Million!

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disolitude said:

Slimebeast said:

disolitude said:

 

Im not smoking anything, just pasting links that im finding which claim Halo 3 advertising was, 6.5 mil, 10 mil or 40 mil.

ITs you guys that are smoking something as you're not pasting any links to any of your clims and just pulling numbers out of your ass.

MW2 advertising didn't cost 200mil btw. 200 mil was the budget for the whole game including development, disk printing, distribution and advertising/marketting.

Game was 40-50 mil to develop. They printed at least 10 million (if not more) copies of the game across all platforms. Lets say 10 dollars per copy of raw materials for manual, disk and case and shipping (its prolly more)...thats another 100 million. So advertising and marketting was around 50 mil. Not 200 million lol...

lol Are you aspiring to become the new master of spin?

Printing of discs is now included in game budgets? And even if they were (which they obviously aren't because budgets include fixed costs and not cost of materials) it would be nowhere near $10 per game copy.

Again, Im not spinning anything as I am posting links for everything I say. You on the other hand have yet to post a link...

Here we go again

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/51534/Modern-Warfare-2-Cost-200-Million-Hidden-Game-Modes-Unlocked-On-PC

"Call of Duty [Modern Warfare 2] cost $40 million to $50 million to produce, people close to the project said, about as much as a mid-size film"

So the game cost 40-50 million.

Then the article states:

"Including marketing expenses and the cost of producing and distributing discs, the launch budget was $200 million"

Therefore printing and distributing discs isn't included in the games budget according to this source. I'd love to see a link from you that says otherwise.

And as far as cost for making and distributing a game, 10 dollars per game is guess on printing the disc, manual, cost of the case, assembly and shipping of the discs to stores and warehouse. Discs themselves are a dollar to print but the manual and shipping/storage raises the costs. I've looked for this figure for a long time and haven't found anything concrete.

Fell free to post a link which proves me wrong.

So you just made those $10 per game copy up? It's just your estimation.

What if it's just $3 per copy and they printed 8 million copies for the launch? That's only $24 million.

Pachter says printing a disc is 70 cent. http://www.gametrailers.com/video/christmas-special-pach-attack/708763  (at around 2 minutes) Conclusion: the whole package including shipping can't be many Dollars more.

So take $200 million and subtract $50 million (game development) and $24 (printing and shipping discs & package) and you get $126 million for marketing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

Halo 3 was marketed in the same ballpark, thus it's over $50 million easily.

Let my draw out the thriumph card though (since you put so much faith in links lol):

 "While the $55 million spent on making Halo 3 pales into insignificance compared to the $200 million Microsoft reportedly spent on marketing the game."

http://gamer.blorge.com/2010/02/25/top-10-video-game-budgets-of-all-time/