AAA money

[SuperNova]

caffeinade said:

SuperNova said:

Also, yes HDZ is quite successfull of course, but even less successfull games with a similar kind of development and marketing budget will make their money back with gamesales alone as long as they break 3M+ LT, wich is not that unusal. Shadow of Mordor for example, whose sequel is hotly debated in the Lootbox, microtransaction, DLC in 60$ games mess sold 5.9M ww across all platforms.

Shadow of Mordor:
PS4 3.08
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

XOne 1.38
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

PS3 0.57
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

X360 0.49
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

Steam 3.68 (as of the 5th of July 2017, the data is unreliable after that point)
http://steamspy.com/app/241930

The game sold over 9.2 million on all platforms.

I went by VGC numbers :P

I also did some calculations on the digital ratio and barring me making any glaring mistakes my results show that a game akin to HDZ budget and success but by a third party publisher would have made it's money back within the first two months. Sony probably made the entire budget back within the first month but I'm really too lazy to calculate any further.

I used VGC to determine digital ratios for two weeks and eight weeks of sales at 15,4% and 20,2% respectively, tendency growing and factored in the decline of retail price, retailer cut, shipping, manufactoring and packaging as well as 30% licensing fees for retail and no price decline and only 30% licensing fees for digital.

retail:       58,5M + 10,8 = 69M
digital:     16,9M + 12M = 29M
overall:    69M + 29M = 98M

Major publishers have no excuse for their nickel and diming other than: 'We want more money.'