Here comes a new challenger for the economical flop of the year title!

You don't need that much for a positive review from IGN, just put Jessica Chobot in the game and the GOTY awards will fly.

Considering extra revenues from growing digital sales, as well as the sale of DLC and other content, this won't be an issue.

Wow. Hope they recoup it.

I don't think they plan on doing it with one release though. Also, people estimating how many copies of the game they need to sell, aren't taking into account DLC, microtransactions, and other things. For example, all this Playstation marketing and stuff, think Activision did that out of the bottom of their hearts?

It will do easily 20 million across all platforms. This game is suppose to have CoD numbers.

I looked at the math and other than you I do not exclude revenue opportunities. The initial price of the game will maybe account for 50% of the complete revenue if I'm generous. Destiny has multiple years to live(maybe the whole generation) and with continued DLC and microtransactions there is so much to gain.

I highly doubt it's anywhere near that much, half a billion dollars? They'll be lucky to make a profit.

If the game cost 60 million to make (and this is a high estimate) an advertising campaign of 400 million? No. Heck even if the game cost 100 million, the rest on everything else is still too much.

I think 100m budget for marketing would have the same effect as 500m.

btw.. 500 million dollar and no PC version... >_>

Okay. But they aren't spending 500m on marketing.