How much do you think MS paid for Gear of War?

[fps_d0minat0r]

kowenicki said:

fps_d0minat0r said:

Sooner or later, rumours will be flying around....and one day it might even be revealed.

Until then, predict how much you think MS bought it for.

 

"The Gears franchise includes four games and has been an Xbox exclusive since it’s debut in 2006. Spencer said 22 million units of the first-person shooters have been sold, earning Epic over a billion dollars in revenue to this point."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/gaming/microsoft-buys-gears-of-war-franchise-vancouver-studio-made-lead-developer/article16498932/

 

A billion in revenue only on xbox and the first one on PC. If this went multiplatform imagine how much Epic would have made.

The development costs were not that high either for Epic, so they would have profited a lot from this.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/10/5516/

 

I think they must have paid atleast $500m for it and even if they dont profit from this, they still need it as a selling point for the XB1.

 

Edit:

According to Pachter, its $100m or less. Does he think Epic are stupid?

http://www.gamepur.com/news/13474-microsoft-bought-gears-war-ip-epic-games-100-million-or-less-no-more-pachte.html

I said less than $100m before I read all of your post.  I would agree with pachter.

Revenue does not equal profit, far from it in this case and they seemed unlikely to develop any more Gears games anyway. 

Your guess of half a billion dollars is insane.

I know revenue is not profit, thats why I added in development costs which are low compared to other games.

Even if you say each gears of war game took $100m to make (even though its no-where near that amount), they still made over half a billion in profit from it so far.