http://kotaku.com/5315625/crackdown-wasnt-the-success-you-think-it-was

Crackdown was awesome! And it had a Halo 3 multiplayer beta key included! So it did great business for Microsoft and developers Realtime, right? Nope. Not even close.

"With Crackdown we sold about 1.5 million copies, but even at that we pretty much only managed to break even," says Dave Jones, boss of developers Realtime Worlds. "It was due to the amount of factors that were out of our control as the developer, influences such as GameStop's amazing used-game sales; we know 1.5 million new copies were sold, but it's likely there were 2.5, three million sold when you include used."

And you wonder why developers and publishers hate GameStop?



Wow that's surprising. It's bad for the developers if they have to sell that many copies just to be profitable, depending on how much they spent to make the game.

Developers hate gamestop... yet keep giving them exclusive merchandise.

Just goes to show. HD games are expensive.

So if I buy it they will be profitable?

@Kasz216,LOL Yeah,we hate you but were giving exclusive content..

How much did this game cost to make if they barely broke even at 1.5 million?

About $60.000.000 ?

Its an expensive and technically impressive game. If they make a new one using the same environment/engine they should more than make enough profit for the first and second game. Open world games are expensive to make, also not all of those sales were at full price. Im betting many sales were at $20 and $30 respectively.

Sales for the game are exactly 1.5M so the latest update means its right on target.

mine was used for $10

I borrowed my copy from a friend

I am sorry Real Time Worlds

It was released pretty early on in the generation, if they released a new crackdown now with the same engine it would probably cost a whole lot less to create.