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BengaBenga on 13 July 2008
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Bingoo said:
FishyJoe said:

Big franchises are expected to pull in mega profits. Look at GTAIV, that game alone pretty much keeps T2 alive. The same goes with SE, their big franchises are expected to pull in huge profits or the company will shrivel and die.

If low budget shovelware were so profitable, then THQ would be king. Instead EA, Activision and to a lesser degree SE are the big dogs because they have the big names pulling in big profits.

 

 thank goodness fishyjoe said something before i did.

Seriously shovelware is not king and spin offs will not pay for big franchises.  FF 13 wil sell MORE then enough to make up for its development cost.

FF on the DS is a joke to its fans. Honostly if i heard the next one was going on the ds id flip shit and i know a whole bunch of people who would as well. Honostly, FF is pinacle of RPGS and one of the kings of storytelling, graphics, and gameplay. Putting it on the DS ruins all that. DQ is much more fitting for DS because of its art style, gameplay, and graphics.

 

 

The cost of the major HD projects is absurd at the moment. It is quite reasonable to think that (unless Sony paid) Metal Gear Solid 4 did not make a profit yet. The development costs are supposed to be around $75 million. You can't make a huge profit if you're around 3 million sold (to retailers, but that's where Konami gets its money).
Same for GTA4, it costed an insane $100 million. This one has made a decent profit, but not a very big one compared to the PS2 versions.
FF13 faces the same problems. Sure it will sell a lot, but it also NEEDS to sell a lot. You have to take into acount that companies want a certain return on investment, that for the big titles should be at least around 30%, but probably more.