Is PS All Stars going to be a huge flop in America? (dismal pre-orders) UPDATE: Yep, it's a huge flop.

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ninetailschris said:

"wtf...

A game that cost 20m to make would only need to sell a bit less than 1 million to make a profit (based on $30 per sale to Sony). This being a first party game though, I'm sure Sony get a larger cut. Then we have advertising, and I don't think they advertised Uncharted 1 all that much...So Uncharted easily made a profit, and a big one at that.

You keep saying you are using "facts" but you don't back any of them up with a source or explanation."

Developers/ studios only make about 12 maybe 13.

Trololo where did you get 30 dollars from?  

I based the 2.5 because of 3 things.

1. It was marketed very good and I mean it was all over the place not as good as COD but very close. COD spends millions on marketing and not low numbers millions we are talking tens- hundred million. Uncharted was marketed very good so we have  to add a few millions at the lowest. 20 million budget doesn't include marketing I found this out when reading about Max Payne failure lost.

2. Servers look at COD cost for servers. Why do you think many ninetendo games don't have online servers because it cost lot's of money. Servers are not put into the budget because there is no way to determine it in the long run. I suggest you read up on some articles on server cost and why companies SHOULD make people pay to be on servers. You will be shocked the cost and how it's hurting the industry.

3.Lastly if you want  just get similar Profit numbers as wii numbers in comparision of sells.

Developer Ninja Theory recently revealed its 2007 PS3 exclusive Heavenly Sword barely broke even despite its relatively impressive 1.5 million-copy debut. I believe it's budget was 15 million oppose to 20 million and was barely marketed in comparision.

 

 

What ninja theory actually said was that they broke even ,but believed  the game made a healthy profit for Sony , the reason being they had run into debt financing the game trying to make it across platforms and to get it finished and published had to hand over the ip to Sony ,and  still had to pay back there incurred debts from a now a much smaller slice of the pie , We have  see this type of behavour in other games where the developer is in trouble and has to agree to terms that they would normally laugh at with the the  publisher .