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Some perspective, they made $310 million from GTA IV on its first day on sale. This is a safe bet. 



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Sal.Paradise said:

Some perspective, they made $310 million from GTA IV on its first day on sale. This is a safe bet. 

That's just revenue though, they will get about half of that back.... They still made tons of money though!



I didn't expect it to cost so much. (i though it cost around $120 million) but it don't matter it should break even in a matter of hours after it comes out. I can't wait.



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Gotdamn,
They will make that back day 1.



it need to sell 10mil to break even?

fuck! how much money did mario kart wii earned???? :O



 

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Were did they get that number from. Unless rockstar confirms this number,It's all speculation. All parties involved will make there money back in time,regardless of the number.



aikohualda said:
it need to sell 10mil to break even?

fuck! how much money did mario kart wii earned???? :O

more than what GTA V will even dream to make, ever. 



elazz said:
I don't know if this is true. First of all Avatar was a much bigger project than Pirates of the Carribean 4. Especially when counting marketing costs as well. The only plausible reason is perhaps that they needed first a lot of licenses for music, more voice actors than usual and motion capturing.

However if this amount is true than that means we're going to see a lot of advertising everywhere on this world and perhaps the costs of a PC/next-gen versions are included.

The op is completely off base with budget comparisons to movies.

Most big budget movies have $100-$150 million advertising budgets alone.  Production budgets on them are often $150 -250 million. 

 

Besides that, thats a shitload of money being spent on that game.



cbarroso09 said:
aikohualda said:
it need to sell 10mil to break even?

fuck! how much money did mario kart wii earned???? :O

more than what GTA V will even dream to make, ever. 

It printed so much money, I bet it was way above what Nintendo ever projected too!

 

$265m! That is scary! It'll more than recoup the entire cost in 2013 though. I think I'll hold out for a "next gen" version or a better PC.



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