Uncharted's budget was...

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DMeisterJ said:

Kasz216 said:

PooperScooper said:
Profit = revenue - cost. 75mil = revenue. You think there was more than 55mil in costs more than development????

Except development budjet=/= cost.

Development budget equals how much it cost to create the game as software.

It doesn't cost how much it cost to make copies of the game nor does it cost advertising, nor does it cost distribution or what you have to pay the stores or what you have to pay sony.

I'm not sure where you got 75 million in revenue for it.

1.25 million copies sold * sixty bucks a copy = 75 million in revenue

Whatever way you slice it, Uncharted is shaping up to be at least a 1.5 million seller, and could go up to 2.0 million units sold. The game has obviously showed some type of profit, or reason to believe it will be profitable, as Uncharted 2 will be in our PlayStation 3s this year.

Sure, because shops don't want to earn any money on games, and transport companies ship it for free, advertisement doesn't cost a thing.

It's more like 1.25 milion * $20,- = $ 25 million. Is $5,- million profit. Not bad, but definitely not good either (especially considered a lot of copies were packed in with the PS3 in Europe).

The profit is only if the advertisement is NOT taken into account. Let's say advertisement costs were $10 miilion, that will make a $ million LOSS.