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[yo_john117]

bananaking21 said:

yo_john117 said:

I'd say 1 million is a pretty safe bet to approach profitability for that game. Personally I think it will do quite well with between 1.5-2.5 million sales lifetime.

i wouldnt say its a safe bet, considering just how long this has been in development and how big the changes that happened during developmet. this isnt a game that has been in the works just for the past 2 years, its been much more longer than that and went under numerous changes. im not trying to be a party pooper or anything, just pointing out something some people tend to forget. 

 

there was a thread that nsanity made a few months back about just how long the development of the tittle took, if i remember correctly the creator had the idea of the game back in the xbox and ps2 days. 

Just because you have an idea doesn't mean you're actually working on it. But yeah I was basing it off of a lesser development budget which upon retrospect is probably quite incorrect. All things considered I have a feeling that MS has put this one up as a cost of launch (meaning they don't expect to make money on it but they have it there to help the X1 lineup and get more people to bite and buy one).

I'm sure all things considered it would probably take 2-3 million copies to break even (even more when you factor in as prices go down, so do the profit margins).