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LivingMetal on 09 December 2014
Trunkin said:
LivingMetal said:
Trunkin said:
RacerXGT said:
Chazore said:
I'd much love to see a lot of concrete evidence to show that Sony are "helping" capcom with SFV development, as in the whole deal for it to be equally compared to what Nintendo did with Bayo 2 because right now it hardly seems that way since Bayo 2 wouldn't of actually happened at all without Nintendo's help yet SFV would happen 100% even without Sony's help, it's not 100% the same exact deal and situation at all.


Not same but a much better deal, PS4 is the console of this gen.  Capcon can see this and is going all for PS4 as it will cost them almost no sales over all whiel ill help with dev by having Sonys support.  They picked the right horse to bank on this gen.

Skipping out on Xbox this gen will cost them millions of sales. They'd be pretty dumb to do so without some sort of compensation  from Sony. Exclusivity for a huge franchise like Street Fighter is a big deal.

Also, I'm not buying the whole cross play excuse. This isn't an MMO. there's no reason why Xbox gamers can't just play with themselves, like they've been doing for the past decade. 


We've been living in a global world for some time now.  Isolation is a poor excuse to defend a company.

Yes, and Xbox is a global brand. Xbox users can play with eachother all over the world.


And it's all that you are going to settle for?



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riderz13371 on 09 December 2014

599 US dollars



XanderXT on 09 December 2014
DucksUnlimited said:
XanderXT said:
You know what, I don't want to argue anymore.

That probably has something to do with your arguments being terrible.

I'm always surfing this on a phone, and it's hard to type there. But did you really need to insult me? Of course not.



MrChaos on 10 December 2014

$0.00 dollars



XanderXT on 10 December 2014
MrChaos said:
$0.00 dollars

You're joking right? Capcom themselves said that Sony paid in development for Street Fighter!



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theprof00 on 10 December 2014

Street fighter 4
X360
USA 1.72
EU .68
JP .15
ROW .25

PS3
USA 1.9
EU 1
JP .57
ROW .5

at release,
USA had x360 at 15m to ps3 8m
EU had 360 at 10m ps3 at 9m
JP had 360 at 1.1m ps3 at 3.3m

Which means attach rates are:
360
USA 10%
EU 7%
JP 10%

PS3
USA 22%
EU 10%
JP 15%

So, we should see sales of
xb1
USA 400k
EU 200k
JP 5k
Roughly 1m total if released on xb1

Earnings per game is broken down as
10-15$ to platform owner (sony or ms)
~8$ retailer
~2$ shipping

so about 20-25$ in costs and 35$ per copy, soooooo
The total value of keeping sf5 off of xb1 is about 35million dollars.

Adding in costs of development on another platform ~5m
It's possible that Sony could very well be paying only for marketing and maybe 10m right away.

So my final answer is 10m, publishing, and marketing, as well as development support

EDIT: And actually, if we figure in that maybe a fourth of those buyers may purchase a ps4 instead, which is likely, they may not have had to pay anything as that would make up the 10m$ in lost sales.



theprof00 on 10 December 2014
true_fan said:
biglittlesps said:
They helped the development just like they are helping in game engine of Deep down so there is close collaboration between them instead of just paying money to remove Xbox version. But tomb raider is money hat by paying to take the PS4 and PC versions and only doing Xbox one and 360 versions.

Such hypocrisy, I don't even know why I'm suprised. Phil Spencer specifically talks about partnering and funding the game in some way. 

the difference is that tomb raider sold more on ps3...almost 40% more.

Total on ps3 and 4 is 3m retail

Total on x360 and xb1 is 1.9m

That's a huge difference.



Trunkin on 10 December 2014
LivingMetal said:
Trunkin said:

Yes, and Xbox is a global brand. Xbox users can play with eachother all over the world.


And it's all that you are going to settle for?

I'm not an Xbox user, so I guess not. I wouldn't really care about crossplay if I was, though. There should be plenty of people to play online with regardless, and the real fun of fighting games comes from local multiplayer anyway.

As a PC user I'm actually really happy with the crossplay announcement, but that doesn't change the fact that it would be a bs move to deprive Xbox of a fighting game for something like that.