Ninja Theory can recoup Hellblade budget with 300,000 sales

[darkknightkryta]

the_dengle said:

Teeqoz said:

the_dengle said:
So based on that graph there, how many sales do you need to break even on a "low-end AAA" game?

Seems to me to be beetween 1,5 to 2 million.

I wonder if that's a commonly accepted lower bound for AAA games or if Ninja Theory is just making stuff up.

Depends, Naughty Dog pumped out all their Uncharteds with 20 million dollars budget.  On the other spectrum, God of War 3 took 45 million to make, and that was 5 million under budget.  Depends the time to create the games though.  Naughty Dog took 2 years per Uncharted, God of War 3 took about 4 years to put together.