Secret message in Metal Gear Survive says 'KJP Forever', calls director a bastard and producer cunning

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DonFerrari said:

potato_hamster said:

Yeah, but the vast majority of MGS V's sales came within the first two months when it was selling for no less than $50. Most publishers make about $30 from a $60 game, and yes it decreases as time goes down, that's why I put it at $25. But even if their average return was $15 a copy, that still nets Konami a handsome $10M profit, and that's not counting the sales of Ground Zeroes (over 3 million copies itself), or the profits on the multi-player micro transactions, even though the $80 million budget for MGSV includes the development cost of both Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain.

This game easily made many, many millions. As far as I know, every game Kojima ever put his name on has made its money back and then some.

And ignoring that a lot of cost gone to creating the engine they will use on other games and those games will enjoy the reduced cost because of it already being paid by MGS V.

That's a bingo. Just like how part of the budget for Horizon: Zero Dawn is actually funding Death Stranding.