The Wonderful 101 Will Launch With Just 30,000 Copies In Japan

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kupomogli said:

iceboy151 said:

kupomogli said:

Figgycal said:
I hope they don't expect a profit.

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 $40 each copy sold, packing and shipping would be less than $5 a copy, so they're making atleast $40 per game sold.  $1,050,000.  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. 

Nintendo is making more like $30-$35 for each exclusive. But do you seriously think this game had a budget around $500,000?

The game looks like crap, so yeah.

A lot of crappy looking games have multimillion dollar budgets. The average cost for a Ps2 game was like 2-7 million I think it was. For Ps360 it grew a lot to 10-20million. I don't think that I could find this link again because it was years ago. This game probably is closer to the ps360 type budget being Wii U is now HD