Back in the ye old days of the 6th gen, it was often enough to sell 500k on 3 platforms, and the devs managed to franchise it. Mikami stated (I think it was him) that a max GC budget would have been at 4 million. Most games where made between 1-3 million $ as far as I know. Yupp, you could have broke even with 200k sales in the first year, with an exclusive. Anything about 1 million was certainly to get a sequel
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