There is one problem for that though, darth. with each passing day that GT5 is not released, that figure is increasing everyday.

 you are fogeting that 1m downloads with full $40 have also been sold

plus ur estimate is wrong.Yamauchi himself has said the entire budget is $60m

marketing is another thing

even that will be covered in the first week itself

 1 million downloads. Doubt it. That would almost exceed the highest selling Xbox Live game which is Battlfield 2943 or something. And PSN aint that big on downloads so thats highly unlikely.

this isn't a PSN or LIVE game.this is a full fleged title released from the starting on PSN

and i don't know of any BF 2943

Plus I doubt it still costs $40 to download.

IT was for a long time.sony doesn't cut prices on PSN.

they have cut recently since the PS PLUS started and they started releasing full games

you must have heard people ranting why PSP games are at full price on PSN and you can get it for less at shops

Plus the budget of GT5 is far more than $60 miill. It was $60 mill over a year ago. By release it'll be at least 80 mill if not $100 mill.

You are just posting whatever comes in your mind

it wasn't $60m year ago.Yamauchi said GT5 as a game cost $60m

and even if he din't it wouldn't rise $20 in just an year,more like $70 max and that $100 is just bullshit

I don't get what some of you have been saying, that GT5:P couldn't have made enough money to cover the costs of GT5, I think it did, plus extras.

If the rumoured development cost was indeed $60m, and GT5:P has sold just under 5m, let's say 5m, they'd need to make $12 per copy in order to reach that, now, it is my understanding that first party developers would get more than $12 per copy sold, more than $20 sold infact, and even if the cost was much higher at $100m, selling 5m copies at $20 would cover the cost. The only thing they've got left to pay for using their own money that hasn't come from the sales of GT5:P would be the advertising costs.

I just thought of something!

Actually games that are available on retail and released on digital download dont sell nothing on download.

Only games that are download only sell well (like 1943 and that game from Epic, forgot its name).

So I estimate about 200K in download sales of GT5p.

As much as I want it to not make a profit, it probably did.

LOL why you want it NOT to make a profit?