| shikamaru317 said: Honestly I doubt that it lost money. Square announced nearly 7m sold for it back in November 2017, by now it's probably around 8m sold. If 8m in sales is a loss, the budget was much higher than it should have been. Also, MS paid them for the timed exclusivity, how much is unknown, but I would imagine that whatever they paid Square covered at least 30% of the game's budget. Also, I agree, FFXV was a definite success, I think it'll hit it's original 10m goal eventually. |
While I also don't think ROTR lost money, according to Benji, the timed exclusivity deal had a negative impact on the TR brand. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is probably the one we should be worried about returning a profit because someone on ERA mentioned that the combined development and advertising budget was ridiculously big.
