Labo family at 1,8 M sales here, probably >2 M shipped

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JRPGfan said:

thismeintiel said:
I think you people are ignoring R&D costs. Who knows how much Nintendo spent on getting Labo working and out onto the market. Either way, it is definitely not a success in Nintendo's eyes. Given their 20M prediction, they were obviously looking for it to push HW sales early/mid 2018. That didn't happen. And it probably won't ship much more than 2M-3M in its lifetime, so poor results all around.

My guess is little to nothing spent on R&D.
This isnt a AAA game, and I doubt it cost anywhere near that, even a AA game would come more to develope than each of these kits.

This a "A" level devepement cost, at most, and sold at like 80$ for a kit.
And the cardboard obviously doesnt cost that much either, in short nintendo makes huge profits on them.

On the programming itself, probably not very much, true.

However, after coming up with the idea, coming up with so many ways to use joycons and tablet is something that takes quite a lot manhours - and a lot of trial and error in implementing those ideas.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 27 January 2019