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Boutros on 17 June 2013
RolStoppable said:
CGI-Quality said:
RolStoppable said:

How, or rather why, do you jump to development costs after reading this report?

Also, the report is comparing revenue of The Last of Us and Man of Steel in the UK.

Why wouldn't you? If it cost 60-100 million dollars to craft, I doubt we'd hear anything close to this, given 1.3 million wouldn't have provided the means for this topic to exist, even @ $60 a pop.

Because the report is about revenues, not profits.

Based on the revealed information, people on NeoGAF and VGC have estimated TLoU's sales to be somewhere in the range of 80-110k units. For simplicity's sake, let's go with 100k units at 40 pounds per copy (what I believe the price to be, could be higher). That's revenue of 4m pounds. If you click on the MCV link, you'll learn that Man of Steel generated 3m pounds. The numbers add up, so yes, The Last of Us grossed more than Man of Steel in the UK last week.

Didn't Man of Steel gross £11.2m this weekend in the UK?



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Boutros on 17 June 2013

Wait is this about profits or revenues? I'm all confused. Best leave it at that XD



jayson1 on 17 June 2013

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Game is incredible, reminds me of Resistance 3 and its dark story .Last of Us stands on its own though and is hard to put down once you start playing it. Story is very rich with what happens to humans when society breaks down. The little things like the coldness shown when people are at there limits when things are dire. To the girl whistling and laughing in amazement because she has been sheltered from the outside world like the ppl from technology in north korea. She is so amazed at the trees and grass basically all things nature because she has never scene anything like it.Being trapped behind the city walls her whole life you see her grow over the course of the game.While the story unfolds it just sticks with you what you see in this game. It's moments like this that make glad I bought a ps3. I have enjoyed so many killer games on my ps3 it is truly one of the great consoles of all time.



famousringo on 17 June 2013

It's appropriate that we compare these two, since just like video games, the skyrocketing production values of blockbuster movies threatens to collapse the film industry:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielberg-predicts-implosion-film-567604

"We're talking Lincoln and Red Tails -- we barely got them into theaters. You're talking about Steven Spielberg and George Lucas can't get their movie into a theater," Lucas said. "I got more people into Lincoln than you got into Red Tails," Spielberg joked.



"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event."  — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
*Image indefinitely borrowed from BrainBoxLtd without his consent.

WiiBox3 on 17 June 2013

Wow. Before I read the edits I was shocked the LoU grossed more than 200mill in the first week. That would me amazing if they sold that many copies of a single console exclusive survival horror that quickly.



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oldschoolfool on 17 June 2013
CGI-Quality said:
LemonSlice said:
Man of Steel made 200,000,000$ worldwide this weekend.

Holy cow! Then, if this is to be believed, the game must not have cost very much to make. 


I disagree with this thread. Is there any confirmed numbers on how much it cost to make the last of us? After the blu-ray release I think man of steel is easily going to gross more then the last of us. 



Chris Hu on 17 June 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Boutros said:
Wait is this about profits or revenues? I'm all confused. Best leave it at that XD

Intially, I thought profits too. BUT, revenue is, from further researching this, what they meant, and specific to UK. In such a case, Man Of Steel wins by a comfortable margin.

Yeah I think this is about profits The Last Of Us was profitable from day one I'm guessing it already sold over 2 million copies.  Man Of Steel has to gross $500 million world wide before it makes a profit since it has big buget and probably also has a big add budget though some of that cost was reduced with products tie ins Twizzlers etc. etc.



WiiBox3 on 17 June 2013

^Hollywood movies never "make a profit" ;) They have great accountants to make sure of that.



Somini on 17 June 2013
WiiBox3 said:
^Hollywood movies never "make a profit" ;) They have great accountants to make sure of that.


I see what you did there :P



VGKing on 17 June 2013

Why are people saying they don't believe it? This isn't an opinion piece, its news lmfao.

Anyway this is the UK chart in case some of you don't know. I'm very interested to see how June NPD will look.