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Zippy6 1 day ago
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sc94597 said:
G2ThaUNiT said:

This is as of December 31st.

Glad to hear. Was getting a bit worried given nothing in the investor report, even with the reporting caveats. Hopefully it sells ~ 2 million (or more) lifetime. If we assumed this game cost something like $100 million to publish (say $12.5 million on average for each year of development) that probably is what they'd need to break even. Say Nintendo makes about $51 per copy, after all retail and merchandising expenses, and with price drops. 1.5 million copies sold would be about $76.5 million in revenue. 2 million would be about $102 million in revenue. 

Also if we consider that Prime Remastered somewhat subsidized the development of Prime 4, it isn't as bad as it seems. If Nintendo made $32 per copy sold that would be about $43 million in revenue from Prime Remastered, which obviously didn't cost that much to make. A lot of the technical work on Prime Remastered is shared with/reused in Prime 4. 

Hopefully 2 million copies is hit, and I think if that happens we'll get a Prime 5. 

It's definitely not going to break even at just 2m copies sold. The same person who says they heard it has 1.5m sales also said it needs to sell 4.5-5m to break even on it's $100m budget. 

Once you take into account manufacturing, transport and crucially the retailers cut Nintendo will make far less than $51 profit from each physical copy sold.

It's also already receiving big discounts, Amazon UK is currently selling it for only £31.

The industry wouldn't be in anywhere near as much trouble if 2m sales would cover a $100m budget.

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