| IsawYoshi said: Let's think over this for a minute. There was a guy at Nintendo that said that making the Fire Emblem game on 3ds profitable, would need it to sell 250k units. A wii u game would need to sell 750k in comparison. I would say that Fire emblem on 3ds is more of an high budget game than ZombiU (Im not saying it's high budget, just higher than ZombiU). Say that in this case ZombiU needs a 600k to break even. If Vgchartz is right then we aren't that far behind. Couple that with the online sales and we should be rather close. Still probably a loss, but not nearly close to a profit? |
I'm guessing you meant to say "Fire Emblem on Wii-U" in there, rather than 3DS? :P
1) I don't think we can assume that any Fire Emblem game has a bigger budget than ZombiU, to be honest (don't underestimate the cost of HD development despite how the game may appear. Just look how many game studios went under despite 'average' sales for their titles).
2) Even if we did assume that, we're working on the assumption that VGChartz figures are right, which they may or may not be.
3) ZombiU was heavily bundled in NA. We don't know if Ubisoft was taking a lower cut because of this.
4) Fire Emblem is a Nintendo game, which traditionally take a long time to drop in price. The longer the prices stay high; the more of a cut Nintendo gets from each sale. The same can't be said about ZombiU, which (as with most third party games), begun to lose value fairly rapidly after release.
Just some things to think about. Guillemot may have been mis-quoted or he might even be just exaggerating this situation, but we have to jump to a lot of assumptions to shoot down what he's saying.
Either way, I think we can conclude that whether it wasn't close to profitable or even if it made a small profit, it wasn't exactly a finiancial success for Ubisoft.
