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Drakrami on 02 February 2020
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Mnementh said:
Drakrami said:

Which decade do you live in? A million hasnt been enough for a long time for any game with a serious production budget. It used to be 3 million to be profitable back in the ps3 days. 

Sorry, if that were true, we would only see two or three titles each year. Budget is calculated based of expectations. Yes, some titles are calculated with two or three million sales for break-even, but they are seldom. For the most part titles need a few 100K to make their money back.

Do you even know what you are posting...? 

Let's take some EA games for example. Titanfall, or Mass Effect, or a new Dragon Age. You think they will be profitable selling 1 million? 

Let's look at smaller games. 

Kingdoms of Amalur sold something like 2.5mil, and the developer went bankrupt. 

Bayonetta1 is a small game, it sold at least 1.35mil last gen; and Platinum is quoted saying it did not meet expectations and thats why there was no sequel until Nintendo forked in some development money.