sc94597 on 09 November 2014
| etking said: It will only be profitable when being released on PS4. |
That is a very eronous claim. Lets say it took them 5 million to produce with an opportunity cost of 10 million, and they(Namco) make $30/copy. That is an upper limit for cost and revenue, but should be just about it. The game would then have to sell 500k copies for it to be profitable for Namco. But if Nanci releases the IP to Nintendo and Monolith Soft then it would cost them nothing and they'd get royalties. Meanwhile it would be profitable for both Nintendo and Monolith as the opportunity cost is lower, since Nintendo has very little big use for monolith outside niche franchises, currently. And Nintendo considers the secondary effects on the console.
