zarx said:
Max King of the Wild said:
So apparently FF13 was already 70$ in Japan. If SE release this Ps4 exclusive in 2014 they could easily make their money back in Japan alone. $80 at launch + special edition + online downloads. They could easily get 80mil back in Japan first week with another 40mil 2nd week |
You seem to be ignoring the fact they still need to market the game, wich will be another $50-120m world wide (basic rule of thumb in the gaming industry is you spend at least as much marketing the game as you spend making it with big games like COD spending far more on marketing). Also Japan is increadibly front loaded Final Fantasy XIII went from 1,464,964 week one to 179,951 week 2 for example currently at 1,865,958 LTD, so you would be looking at a ~10m second week if they do 80m week one.
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Did I forget that? 50-120mil WW means 10-20mil in Japan... so they break even with entire development and Japans marketing in Japan alone and the rest of the world just needs to cover marketing. That rule of thumb is the most retarded thing I've heard. The rule of thumb is have your economist do a function of costs and find the optimal cost to maximize return. There is a rule of deminishing returns that says at certain point more marketing would just mean your spending more money.
I may have over exagerated the length it would take but the majority (95%) of those 1.9mil were at full price (obviously you just need to look at FW compared to total) so that means 95mil in Japan alone. Left to make up ~50mil in the rest of the world which would be a piece of cake.
