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SaviorX on 31 July 2009
Rhonin the wizard said:
Roflinator said:
Rhonin the wizard said:

Those are worldwide shipped numbers until 30 June 2009. Probably some of those went to the European launch. Here is the original document.

The game didn't come out til July in Europe.

It was released on 10 July in Europe and they had to send the copies so they would arrive on time for the release. I'm not saying that this happened, I'm saying it's a possible explanation.

I've never heard of things like this happening except for on one occasion, and I think that was when Wii Fit launched and there were  shortages.

 

I highly doubt that Sega had no copies reserved for their European launch, which occured on July 10th. These 150k copies were for America only. In The Conduit's first 9 days I believe, NPD had sales at 72,000, 48% of the first shipment.

 

Now, the stock is probably close to depleted for the game. I'm just guessing here, but:

First 10 days - 51% of shipment (1-10)

Next 10 days- 22% of shipment (11-20)

Next 10 days- 10% of shipment (21-30)



Leatherhat on July 6th, 2012 3pm. Vita sales:"3 mil for COD 2 mil for AC. Maybe more. "  thehusbo on July 6th, 2012 5pm. Vita sales:"5 mil for COD 2.2 mil for AC."

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N.Genckel on 31 July 2009

I'm kind of dissapointed in the game. The single player isn't really that good.



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leo-j on 31 July 2009
routsounmanman said:
I'd take their word over NPD or Vgchartz. This is good.

So then the ps3 is at 24 million , since SONY's word= SEGA's word



 

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Video_Game_Critic on 31 July 2009
leo-j said:
routsounmanman said:
I'd take their word over NPD or Vgchartz. This is good.

So then the ps3 is at 24 million , since SONY's word= SEGA's word

routsounmanman is being sarcastic.



Joelcool7 on 31 July 2009
sguy78 said:
I wonder what kind of sales they will need just to break even.


Correct me if I'm wrong. But doesn't creating the graphics and physics engines cost the majority of the money?

If so I don't think The Conduit will have to have all that impressive sales to break even. Why, because all of High Voltages upcoming titles are using the technology pioneered by The Conduit. So their sales will add up and lead to the R&D costs breaking even. Of course if we lump all of the R&D into the game I'd say that in bulk sales around 300k should break them even.

Since Sega only shipped 150K for the launch they obviously didn't expect it to do overwhelmingly good. Sega also invested in High Voltage and if they didn't expect The Conduit to sell any more then 150k during the launch I highly doubt the dev costs were too high. Sega is not a dumb company they wouldn't have invested to heavily in a product they didn't expect to shatter the charts.

So I'm guessing High Voltage was able to keep costs low and by creating their own Physic's/Graphics engine they are able to cheaply produce future software. High Voltage doesn't have to worry about liscensing engines and obviously it didn't cost them a fortune to produce the Conduit as they are now making two more properties using the same engine.

I suspect 300k will break them even maybe as much as 500k but I doubt it. Not to mention The Conduit will have legs so it should at least break even!



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