| endimion said: @stage cause 60 bucks is what goes back to the dev studio of course.... and even if it does.... 330 000 000/4 years of dev= 82 500 000 then let say you have 400 people related to the game from dev team, acting, video, sound, test etc, marketing teams (just look at the credit of an AAA game it makes any star wars movie credit look small you have 82 500 000/400= 206250 and it does even take into account overhead, like the material you need, electricity, rent of studios etc and like said before 60 bucks is nothing close to what the dev studio gets.... you have the distributor, shipper, retailer cut to remove in that and you have tax on top of it.... |
333,000,000 (not including digital downloads) only accounts for the game, publisher and developer profit which is nearly full since retailers barely get much out of it, Microsoft gets a cut for having it on their console. Epic is the Publisher/Developer so its almost full profit coming back to them. That and Microsoft pays them to keep exclusivity, so basically they paid for development cost of the game itself just to keep it exclusive to the Xbox 360. I know this because MS tried the same tactic with Ninja Gaiden 2 and Tecmo used the money to fund a superior version for the PS3. They have to supplement the lost sales of a second console to keep the game exclusive and that could be anywhere from fifty million to hundreds of millions, which I am guessing is the latter. Gears in its entirety has given Epic games multibillion dollar profit when you add up merch, DLC (online pass bundles).
Games like Gears generally cost around the 60 to 80 million dollar region to create, which was what AAA title prices started out at in the beginning of the generation. Halo 4 is the most expensive videogame of the generation and it was over 100 million to make. The majority of that profit went back to MS being that the game is self published the only payments are to shippers, retailers and more but that cut doesn't stop the company themselves from gaining major profit.
It was one franchise that retired Cliff Bleszinski as young as he is in the industry. There is no excuse to defend this. If the director can retire...you know they made their money back with an exclaimation mark.
