outlawauron on 19 August 2013
kupomogli said:
People are saying this, but games don't have to sell a kajillion copies to make money. Being a first party title, in the US Nintendo is probably getting around $45-50 a copy, packing and shipping would be less than $5 a copy, so they're making atleast $40 per game sold. $1,200,000. Nintendo probably paid about half a million for this title to be developed, so if 15,000 copies sell they're breaking even. If all 30,000 sell, they doubled their investment. |
Most games don't need to sell kajillions of copies, but 30k is barely enough to profit off of small handheld title (and you're percentages are way off, Nintendo is likely taking $30-35 MAX on first party titles. You're also crazy if you think the budget for this is half a million.
