Uncharted's budget was...

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shio said:

DMeisterJ said:
So uncharted has sold 1.25 million copies * sixty bucks a copy, equals 75 million in revenue? I mean, I know some of that goes to the store and Sony, but it basically made profit, right?

So with all of those "ZOMG Killzone 2 costs 50 million" threads will be quenced, so long as it sells ~2 million copies? cool.

There's no way Uncharted made profit, even if it reached 2 million. You don't even know how much distribution, retailers, etc.. take away from the game's profits.

 Usually a developer makes only $10 from each copy, and if you add more $10 from game's royalties to Sony, they only make that much, $20 per copy. And adding whatever additional costs they had such as advertisement, makes it either no profit or almost no profit. Either way, it counts as a failure.

Your maths are wrong.

 

Game sells for 60$, retailer keeps at most 25$ out of that( I have seen Best Buy drop the price of a game by 20$ for a week so they make at least that much per game).

Sony gets 10$.

Packaging/game manual probably like 2$.

23$ left for naughty Dog and their distributor ( the fact it's sony is separate from the Sony 10$ which is standard cut for Sony on any PS3 game).

My guess is naughty dog gets 18$ and the distributor 5$ at most.( the distributor doesn't take that many risks imo).

 1.25 Million copies at 18$ they made a small profit.

 In that case the distributor probably didn't make any profit and spent all their cash on advertising but it's sony so they get their 10$ too and it's their interest to have more ps3 games out..