| Vena said: The game in as of so far likely has not been profitable (factoring in development, marketing, and other cursory costs for the total budget), and if it has become so it has crawled to that point in packaged sales or been carried through DLC. The amount of money they will make from this, if they ever get the project to be profitable on the whole, will be too small to justify... and this is in a scenario where they even chopped off the end of the game to just get the product shipped and finished. ...Hence why Kojima was fired. He took too long and ballooned the budget for far too little return. They didn't fire him for being capable, they fired him for the opposite reason from a bottomline perspective. |
The game already broke even. Konami needed to sell between five to six million units according to one of the Forbes reports and that number has already been surpassed. Whether the net income satisfy Konami Corp or not, that's a different affair, but the thing is, every single copy, unit, merchandising product or DLC that they sell from now on will contribute to the positive ratio. Worst case scenario, Konami needed those six millions: the game will keep on generating profits. Better case scenario, Konami needed five millions: they've already sold one million units in positive balance. In either case, the game is profitable at this point.
