Final Fantasy XV will be exclusive on PS4. Sony co-developing - rumour

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Kresnik said:

osed125 said:

The publishers recovers only $27 from the games, let's say the game will cost $70, so the publisher recovers $37 (highly doubt that's how is going to work, because the extra $10 should be parted between all the stuff in the image, but lets say it is) that means that the game will recover (saying that it will sell 1.5m units FW) $55.5m FW. It is speculated that FF XIII costed 50m to develop, so given that graphics are better, plus big delays (which always add to the total budget), plus inflation, plus marketing, you could easily get a total cost of $100m. 

If we go by FF XIII where the game sold 170k second week, that means it will recover only $6.29m second week. 

So unless it's first week is something like 3m units or part of the total budget of the game (including marketing) it's being done by Sony, there's no way they can recover the money (even if you include digital sales).

How mucb of that is sunk costs by now though?  I'd have thought an element of it would be how much they're projected to return for finishig thetitle.  Depends how far along they were.  If Sony are indeed helping (I'm skeptical), that would lift some of the burden from getting the project out of the door and seeing SOME return on it.

Unless Sony is helping Square I don't know how they alone can pay the bills. So if the rumor about the game costing $120m is true the only possible way for this to make sense is if Sony is involve somehow. That or SE is extremely stupid.