tombi123 said:
BengaBenga said:
Shams:
Excellent breakdown of the figures.
If Uncharted is around 4 million profit that's a huge dissapointment. The return on capital invested is very low. Don't forget that a part of the profits goes to the shareholders dividend (in this case Sony) and what's left can be invested in new games.
Even if they invest the full profit of their BIGGEST game last year, it will only be a small part of the total cost of the new game.
Let's take a look at Konami. Normally a MGS game would be the main profit for a whole year. This time it needs to sell 3.5 million copies (at a rumoured dev cost of $ 70,-) to break even. That means that no matter how much copies are sold, it won't have a massive profit.
Normally Konami could have used the profits of games like these to cover for niche games, like Suikoden. These ridiculous high dev costs actually make it less likely for niche games to appear anymore. |
I think Pro Evolution Soccer brings in just as much profit as MGS does. I think PES 2008 is at about 4M copies sold (guess). I can't see it costing more than Uncharted to make. Probably 15M. |
I'd say that's high... no offence to PES but it's not exactly a top notch game... it's not quite the Madden of soccer, but it's the NBA2K of Soccer.
I mean i'm pretty sure they're using the old engine and everything. Those games are going to be pure profit after next year. (I think they're overhauling the engine for the HD consoles next game, after that however they'll be set for a few years of rolling in cash.)
