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ArtofAngels on 22 February 2008

How is $20 Million Cheap?



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Quartz on 22 February 2008

So if it cost $20m. And it's sold ~1Mill so far. That means they would havew to make $20- on each game to break even

*VERY rough idea.  Feel free to grab figures if anyone has any.



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Possum5454 on 22 February 2008

less expensive then i thought but, still expensive



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antfromtashkent on 22 February 2008
weezy said:
no wonder why ppl would rather make a wii game than ps3.

do you want to make money? dont make a ps3 game.

unless.... my M$ mole was right and $80 games are on the way.. :)

yeh im sure MGS4 will come out with a 80 special eddition... some worthless trinkets ... sentemental value u know.
but that helps with very expencive games.

 



BottledSpringWater on 22 February 2008

That's not cool.
$20 million is not cheap.



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DMeisterJ on 22 February 2008

So uncharted has sold 1.25 million copies * sixty bucks a copy, equals 75 million in revenue? I mean, I know some of that goes to the store and Sony, but it basically made profit, right?

So with all of those "ZOMG Killzone 2 costs 50 million" threads will be quenced, so long as it sells ~2 million copies? cool.



Bodhesatva on 22 February 2008

This is a classic debating tactic.

First, you insist that your "opponent" has claimed some ridiculously high (or low) statistic.

Then, you show that the actual value of that statistic is lower than the ridiculous claim. 

"Some people claim that over a million people die each year due to gun related violence in the US. In reality, it's less than two hundred thousand!"

 

 

This makes it look your figure is actually low, when it's only low in comparison to some ridiculously high figure.  

I don't think any reasonable person here thought that games were averaging 40 million, just that some of the higher end games did cost that much (such as Killzone2 and MGS4). I honestly don't know of anyone who thought this was the norm.

20 Million is very high, and puts the given estimates for copies needed to break even right where we've heard they are for higher end games: 700-1000k units. Sounds about right to me, and only further cements my perception that the PS3 is, indeed, very expensive to develop for. 



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Bodhesatva on 22 February 2008
DMeisterJ said:
So uncharted has sold 1.25 million copies * sixty bucks a copy, equals 75 million in revenue? I mean, I know some of that goes to the store and Sony, but it basically made profit, right?

So with all of those "ZOMG Killzone 2 costs 50 million" threads will be quenced, so long as it sells ~2 million copies? cool.

 Exactly. I don't think there's any question that it's made a profit. 



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weezy on 22 February 2008
antfromtashkent said:
weezy said:
no wonder why ppl would rather make a wii game than ps3.

do you want to make money? dont make a ps3 game.

unless.... my M$ mole was right and $80 games are on the way.. :)

yeh im sure MGS4 will come out with a 80 special eddition... some worthless trinkets ... sentemental value u know.
but that helps with very expencive games.

 


Maybe a DVD "behind the scenes" extra. But that will be it.



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kingofwale on 22 February 2008
Bodhesatva said:

This is a classic debating tactic.

First, you insist that your "opponent" has claimed some ridiculously high (or low) statistic.

Then, you show that the actual value of that statistic is lower than the ridiculous claim.

"Some people claim that over a million people die each year due to gun related violence in the US. In reality, it's less than two hundred thousand!"

 

 

This makes it look your figure is actually low, when it's only low in comparison to some ridiculously high figure.

I don't think any reasonable person here thought that games were averaging 40 million, just that some of the higher end games did cost that much (such as Killzone2 and MGS4). I honestly don't know of anyone who thought this was the norm.

20 Million is very high, and puts the given estimates for copies needed to break even right where we've heard they are for higher end games: 700-1000k units. Sounds about right to me, and only further cements my perception that the PS3 is, indeed, very expensive to develop for.


 well, you do need money to get perfection. and Uncharted is one of the (if not THE) best game of 07 for Sony. 20 million for a PS3GOTY is a bargain in my opinion.

 but it's also very risky business, if the game sucks, the developer will get punished heavily by PS3 users, like Lair did



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