HappySqurriel on 22 May 2008
| TheBigFatJ said: Some devs were quoted saying that you needed at least 500k to break even on a game for the PS3/360. Consider that higher budget games would need higher sales. Also consider that the price of games drops significiantly. For example, Halo 3 was an MS published game, and MS promised it all MS published games sold at $50 instead of $60. But there were places you could find Halo 3 for $30 around Christmas time. So not all sales were at $50. |
I think there (probably) are a lot of games that can break even after 500,000 unit sales, and I think it is a bad to assume that a higher profile XBox 360 game would break even (in particular if it had as large of a marketing campaign as Lost Odesy did).
