I loved the game. If only they added another level or two they would've eliminated the major gripes that others have had about the game. Plus it didn't help that there weren't many PS3 to sell to since it was a launch title and it didn't have the longevity.

Sorry for bringing back a thread from the dead and for completing forgetting to even ask Tameem about this but incidently he answerd this question posed by someone else earlier today.

Tameem: Hiring good actors had virtually nothing to do with it.  A common misconception by those who haven't worked closely with people from other media.

Eh i really don't think so. They voice acting was good but all rockstar games this gen have  natural voice acting. Infact i think most of their games are like that.

All this talk of heavenly sword makes me want to go buy it!!

Funny. I guess they know their target audience.

It was early days with the PS3. The Dev kit was said to be near useless by those brave enough to criticise SONY (get caught and your dev kits are taken away)

So they had two years to

1. Build an engine on a totally unfamiliar platform

2. Create a game using that engine.

I think two years for both is OK.

It's absurd to think that they didn't break even, there is no reason that a 1.5 million copy seller can't break even, especially when it never got a price drop. $90 million in revenue, and they lost money? LOL. I know that about $20 mil goes to retailers, and a good chunk went to Sony since they published, but even then.

Enslaved isn't going to save Ninja Theory either. It was probably in their best interest to stay platform exclusive since us PS3 fans hype good exclusive games to death (see: success stories like Valkyria Chronicles, Demon's Souls, 3D Dot Game Heroes, Heavy Rain), but now they'll be lost in a sea of multiplatform games.

3DGH bombed hard, it sold only 13k total in Japan.  Also, it's likely overtracked by VGC in America, it's numbers here likely would've placed it in the NPD top 20 for both May (64k via VGC) and June (77k via VGC), and it didn't place for either.

Valkyria's probably embarrassingly overtracked for the Americas.  A (questionable) NPD placed it's US ltd around 150k last fall... VGC tends to do this with core niche games for some reason, it also happened with Demon's Souls.  If Sega had been happy with Valkyria sales, they wouldn't have jumped to PSP for the sequel...

NT likely only made about $20 per unit sold.  That's $30 million.  And remember that NT funded the project themselves BEFORE Sony signed on to publish. 

3DGH sold 28k in Japan, and this game probably cost nothing to make. In no way this bombed.

Sega told in the past that they were happy by the spike in VC sales. VC 2 surely was already in development.