For every game studio 1.5M sales=no profit means shitty management,multiplatform or exclusive.

For every game studio,1.5M sales=No profit means stupid management,nothing more.

multi-platform or exclusive.

The game was in development for xbox well before Sony picked it up. That would explain why the publisher profited but the developer didn't. (talking about Heavenly Sword).

They probablly completely scrapped the xbox version which probablly ate a good deal of money.

Yeah agreed with this, it's sad when it happens though.

wow so are these guys still making games?

you should say what game your talking about in the OP as I would never have known what game you meant if it wasn't for OkeyDokey

Not when most of the sales are made at discounted prices...........

Expensive HD games are never a "good" business, imo. Good in a truly money making miracle aspect.
I really believe... I don't know, that for example Cooking Mama is gonna profit way more this gen than God of War/Heavy Rain and Yakuza combined, just to keep PS3's march releases.

Probably fair. Certainly if you're going to make a game like HS you should be aiming to at least break even from 1.5 Million units sold. If not, and you're releasing that early in the console's cycle with an unproven new IP, I'd have to question the developers business sense.

Heavenly Sword is still $60 MSRP...