Kirby is "Not" A Flop... Update: Rainbow Curse Showing "Balls" :)

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Dunban67 said:

zorg1000 said:

500,000×$40=$20,000,000

U really think the development+marketing budget is over $20,000,000 for a small game like this?

Nintendo does not get near $40 of the $0 sales tag-   you have shipping, the retailers, distribution etc   so it is alot less than $40 X 500k

I live in a small/mid size media market in the SE USA (about 600k MSA- Metropolitan  Statistical Area)    and I have seen several TV adds wathcing tv my kids-  So they are running a national or near national TV marketing campaign which is ot going to be cheap  - evn itf it was a bare bones campaign (not saying the Kirby campaign is bare bones)

there are alot more expenses to consider and some % of those 500k sales will be at lesss than $40 retail -  since its off to a slow slaes start it will prob discont a little more than most Nintendo titles  overits life time  

Ya, Tbone corrected me already. Let's say Nintendo gets 50% back, that's still $10 million with sales of 500k.

Nintendo games rarely get price cuts or discounts so the vast majority of sales will be full price. Once again u seem to ignore that the games 2nd month was higher than its 1st so it's not really a slow start.