Slimebeast on 19 January 2008
| Supa_Gama said: Couple of weeks before I though that Lost Planet made a lot of profit seeing how well it sold (1.5m +) before I saw an article that said that it Capcom have lost a lot of money on it because the game cost like 40m to develop and marketed. It's seam logic to assume that Uncharted, Heavenly Sword and R&C dev cost is around the same as Lost Planet so selling 1m copies wont be enough for those title at all. |
BS. No way a game like Lost Planet cost $40 mill. You must have read it from a bad source. There's nothing special about Lost Planet that could cost a lot of money (no advanced graphics engine, no voice acting, no movies, no advanced physics etc). Capcom aren't idiots who would invest such a huge sum on a new IP. And $40 mill would require minimum sales of 2-2.5 mill units to break even.
Very few games cost $40 mill (like Oblivion with 4 mill sold on all platforms, or Zelda, GTA4 etc). Even $20 mill is considered a big and risky budget for new IP, and that figure has been mentioned several times for games like Heavenly Sword and Lair, which also lost a lot of money.
