Wow 20M sounds pretty damn expensive, many copies do they have to sell to make a profit?

Including advertisement

Having to break sony off with a huge chunk.

any many more factors im not including, they arent really making much.

Wow ,I think this generation will hold many many years ..... I just cant imagine what the costs for a new generation would be ....40 million per game as average budget ??

I remember someone posting on here a while back, that the developers get about $24 for each game sold. That seems reasonable, so to break even on a $20M game, you need to sell: 833,333 copies.

Uncharted has sold 1,250,000 copies, meaning: $10,000,000 profit on this game so far.

I think Naughty Dog are making Uncharted a trilogy. The other two games will cost less, wont they?

Uncharted is lackluster compared to most other systems "GOTY" games.

Plus 20 million development cost? ouch.

>I think Naughty Dog are making Uncharted a trilogy. The other two games will cost less, wont they?

I would trade that in for a longer experience (longer gameplay)

Oh I know that, but some people like to say that the game "hasn't done well", but I believe as long as a game is profitable, and good, it's sold good.

@ Weezy

I agree.  But as we  they can see, the game is still selling ~50k/week, and hasn't really slowed, so how much profit they make is irrelevant, just that they make profit, or at least break even, so it can't be called a failure.

weezy go away you are really obnoxious.

I hope this generation lasts for a long time, longer than the 5 year normal cycle.

The more it costs to develop, the less big games we will have

The next Uncharted will be much cheaper to make, assuming they use the same engine and just tweak it. This is what Epic is doing with UE3 for Gears 2.