How Many Copies Did The Last of Us Have To Sell To Become Profitable?

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the-pi-guy said:

riderz13371 said:

iceboy151 said:
2.5M-3M at full retail price.

You think the games budget was $180M? That's GTA V numbers right there lol.

Companies don't actually make all 60$.  

There was some sort of chart that showed that 3rd party gets about 27$ out of that 60$ and 7$ of that 60$ goes to the platform holder.  Seeing as Sony is the platform holder, they won't need to pay themselves for license fees, so Sony probaby gets 34$ for every copy sold.  So rather than GTA V, he is thinking GTA IV numbers.  Much smaller.

still, reaching 3 million sales at full price to be profitable would mean that they had a budget of 102 million which is simply insane