sc94597 said:
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. |
2m honestly shouldn't be a doubt in anyone's head.
was No.7 in December US all platform sales without digital included. That to me alludes to almost 1m in the US. That's great. People are really panicking because it's not selling like bigger Nintendo IP but it was never going to do that.
I don't think people get how hard it is to be a multimillion seller on a 6month old, sub <20m audience in less than a month lol.
Even though S2 is selling great I really doubt the entire core audience has all jumped on board when there's been a lack of compelling exclusives. If Metroid see's growth it's also going to be reflected in legs. Gotta wait to see how things pan out.
