Opinion on future of poor selling quality games

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ChaosReich said:

Boutros said:

Persona 5 is at almost 2m copies sold and has PS3 assets so it's not current gen production costs. It's also Atlus' highest selling game ever.

Nioh sold over a million just over month after release and is Koei Tecmo's most successful game ever published in the west. It will also end up being Team Ninja's highest selling game ever and that's all just on the PS4. There's a PC version coming and it should be very popular.

Thats awesome to hear about Persona but like i said, in Niohs case, if that game cost around the average production budget of videogames then selling a little over a million isnt going to cover the likely 80+ million put into it. I could be completely wrong with how much the average game cost or with how much i assume Nioh cost. Like i said, i remember reading about the average prod budget of videogames on some site a few years back and can only assume its gone up

Dont know where you are getting your figures from but these games didnt cost 80+ to make. Nioh probably cost between 15-30.

That 30m is probably around the average, while a AA game will cost you 10-20.

Anything over that is normally the massive big games, in fact GTA was reportidly only cost about 60-80 and actually the cost of marketing was where it went so high, but when you know you have a billion dollar franchise then its not a problem, but thats an Outlier something that is not done by most other games.