ZombiU Was "Not Even Close" to Profitable, No Plans for a Sequel

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Busted said:

Slimebeast said:

It's easy to say in hindsight that the game wouldn't become a success.

But at the time everybody thought it would sell fairly well. 1-1.5 million was probably a reasonable target lifetime (some copies at discount) and upside was +2 million.

Probably it cost $20 million. All AAA games cost at least $20 million. That requires 1 million copies at full price to break even.

Agree with you but ZombiU is an AAA game? right...

and i don't think $20m comes close, any AAA costs at least three times that

A $20 million budget is still considered AAA. It's in range of "low budget AAA game" category, but it's still AAA.