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fatslob-:O on 16 September 2013
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Wright said:
fatslob-:O said:

I'm pretty sure blue dragon outsold lost odyssey looking at the vgchartz numbers and I would estimate the game costed at least 15 million dollars to make given that it created alot of assests to span on 3 full DVD's while also having roughly 2 years of development time. Oh and there were 2 developers while your at it. Artoon had around 80 and it was creating the ingame assests while mistwalker with a staff of about 15 at the time were the ones conceptualizing it. I have some trouble believing that blue dragon made profit with these circumstances.

I'm definitely sure that lost odyssey also made a loss and not a gain given the fact that mistwalker has experienced some development issues. 

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17559    (Look under "What Didn't Go Well" section of the article for more details.)                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 

I've checked your source and read it entirely and there's nothing specified about having bad sales. Problems with coordinations, but bad figures aren't anywhere to be seen. Lost Odyssey was one of the best-selling JRPGs - along with Blue Dragon - of the seventh gen, only behind Demon's Souls and Valkyria Chronicles, speaking of exclusives (and maybe Xenoblade as well).

 

Cry On was a project of Mistwalker, without the help of Microsoft unlike BD and Lost Odyssey. Microsoft can't stop a project they don't own. The reasons of this cancelling was due to Mistwalker assimilation of the poor market conditions and the fact that they knew the game wasn't going to sell well. Check it here.

 

Oh 0_o I didn't know that cry on was funded by mistwalker and AQ interactive themselves but why is it a x360 excluseive ? (On another thought I have to possibly answer the question. I think it's Hironobu Sakaguchi distaste for ken kutaragi and sony go see this http://www.1up.com/news/hironobu-sakaguchi-doesn-ken-kutaragi)