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LudicrousSpeed on 05 June 2014
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bevochan said:
NobleTeam360 said:
Lmao, where did you get that 250 million dollar figure for Titanfall?


If you assume Titanfall would have sold 5 million lifetime on PS4 and multiply that by an average of $50 per game.  Maybe Titanfall would have sold 4 million copies or 6 million copies.  The early copies of Titanfall would have been full price at $60, but maybe more copies would have sold at a sale price of $40.  Who knows.   The 250 million was a rough estimate, so maybe it would have only been 200 million but it could have been 300 million.  Whatever.  It is still lots of lost revenue money.  Of course, if Titanfall comes out now, it won't sell 4 million because it already lost out on that chance.

DR3 development was funded by MS. So essentially anything Crapcom made off of it was free money. Free money they otherwise would not have gotten, because had MS not paid for development, the game wouldn't exist. I think this one has the best chance of hitting PS4, and I doubt it would happen. But even if it does, what does it matter? The game is barely selling anymore. It's not as if MS is losing a huge exclusive.

With Titanfall, MS not only had originally signed a timed-exclusive deal, but they also stepped in when Respawn was going to have to hand the IP over to EA (where it would die) and funded the finishing development of the game. So in your complete guesswork math, where do you figure in the timed exclusive contract payment, and the extra money EA saved from not having to finish development of the game? Not to mention any further payment EA would have likely received to make the game a "permanent MS exclusive".

Oh and lets give the tin foil hat people some love and reference all the theories that MS was somehow paying EA to delay and not show off the 360 version at all. How much of the 250-300 mil did that knock off?

The main reason I would not expect Titanfall is it would be too close to a TF2 release, which I would bet is coming in late 2015 or early 2016.