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Solid-Stark on 29 October 2014

Then it should recoup the budget and more with first week sales.



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ktay95 on 29 October 2014
Mystro-Sama said:

Why the fuck can't other publishers budget like this? Yes, i'm looking at you SE.

 

They'll make crazy profit off this just from the PS4 version.

Sleeping Dogs - Dev:2008-2012, had budget issues before SQEX were involved, SQEX then had to pay Activision for publishing rights. PROFIT

Hitman Absolution - New engine to be used for PS4 and XBO generation, dev 2 years. No word on profit so I would say no, but with the engine in place cost of future games should be lower.

Tomb Raider - Developed between 08 and 13. PROFIT (prior to its next gen release might I add)

All of these came at a time when SQEX was struggling and needed big sellers so expectations from them were high. None of them could be made by 12-15 guys in 1-2 years on such a small budget.



darkknightkryta on 29 October 2014
Mystro-Sama said:
darkknightkryta said:
Mystro-Sama said:

Why the fuck can't other publishers budget like this? Yes, i'm looking at you SE.

 

They'll make crazy profit off this just from the PS4 version.

Looking strictly at the budget of 20 million, you'd need about 670,000 sold.  Assuming 30 dollars per 60 dollar retail game goes to the publisher.

Which is still a really easy target.

Yeah, I have no idea why publishers let things get out of hand.  Like I was looking at the credits to Infamous: Festival of Blood and there were so many useless people, and that was for a 15 dollar DLC game...



TheWPCTraveler on 30 October 2014
Experimental42 said:
kinisking said:
 


I dislike how you hate on dude Bros. This has nothing to do with them? You should be happy someone's a gamer not talking like that. So what if they like different genres. Does Itmatter? Bigger sales for the gaming industry 


Actually it does matter. The "dudebro" population has become an epidemic that's affecting all of gaming. Thanks to them flocking to the gaming community in droves an their refusal in general to sexpand their horizons, the market has been flooded with graphics oriented, bloated budget dudebro candy. They've created an environment that rewards repetitive releases, little innovation, visuals above gameplay, and destroys developers with a single flop.

What's more, with game companies being companies as well as game designers, they're going to design games that will make them the most money possible, so we continually see elements from the top dudebro genre's creeping into series where it doesn't fit. Resident Evil 6 is a perfect example.

The mainstream video game community is at an all time low in terms of game output and creativity, and the situation is made worse by the impending collapse of every major company due to the pressure to release larger and more profitable games. You want a new Dragon's Dogma? Too bad. Megaman isn't gonna grab the big bucks, don't waste time on it. F*ck Crash bandicoot and Jak and Daxter, we need more third person action adventure games because that's what sells to the dudebro epidemic.

The only way the video game market is going to return to a more balanced place when the AAAs inevitably collapse and companies avoid becoming that bloated again, or we find a way to transmit AIDS through playing CoD.

Why don't you make a thread regarding your concerns?

To OP: I really, really hope this succeeds. People in Japan have been doing this kind of B-tier work (like Compile Heart or Idea Factory or Koei Tecmo, or...the list goes on, really) for quite some time now.



 
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teigaga on 30 October 2014
Intrinsic said:
this is what it should be like. Studios should start downsizing. This reminds me of days of old when all a studio had to do to be profitable was sell a million copies of their game. Now if they don't sell at least 4M/5M then they haven't even started scratching the surface.


Or make multiple games of smaller budgets.



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Qwark on 30 October 2014
binary solo said:
Loved heavenly Sword, so looks like this one's for me. Rather ironic that their PS3 early gen exclusive actually sold fairly well, but did not make a return, whereas this early gen PS4 game is likely to break even within a month, possibly in its first week.

Just imagine the sales of Heavenly sword 2 with a copy of heavenly sword ported from ps3 to PS4 would do. (Like bayonetta, but then with huge sales).

Such a collection could sell above 2 million if it is advertised right, which is quite a lot for the genre, I hope it does well, ninja theorie need to join the Sony family, they sorta fit in quite well and the ps userbase likes ninja theorie. I see this game achieving a million lifetime due to it not being certain it is an exclusive and Sony doesn't have the right of the IP, (they should make sure it stays a Sony exclusive.)



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S.T.A.G.E. on 30 October 2014

I love Ninja Theory. I've loved all of their games that they've made thus far. Highly underrated. You've got my money if this game is good NInja! This is such a smart plan because they've never made it past that AAA threshold of sales. They really needed to readjust to survive. Kudos to them. If they even sell 400,000 copies over I'll be happy.