famousringo on 10 April 2014
You may be correct, but only because costs continued to rise over the course of last gen. When 7th gen started, the threshold for success was typically around 1 million units. By the end, we saw a lot of publishers disappointed if their title couldn't clear 5 million units.
And this is while publishers worked to leverage their established engines and took increased advantage of DLC as a tool to increase revenue.
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