Naughty Dog must be very sad when they are making a profit already. Poor Naughty Dog, Sony must be sad too. I pity them. Deep down their hearts they must be very sad but hey! look on the bright side Uncharted 2 will also stop selling tomorrow so they must be freaking happy. Lucky them!

@ stefan

Uncharted was only 20 million to make. Assuming that they getting $30 for every copy.

Let's do the math- 30 X 1.5 million = 45000000

Here's a link I found.  http://socialexec.com/2009/02/07/development-uncharted-2-cost/

Marketing could add another 20 million of costs. UC2 had a Big marketing push.

30 dollar  profit per sold seems high. If it were that high, then a lot gamecompany's wouldn't have gone bankrupt.

Uncharted 2 is also bundled a lot which means it's sold under it's price. I'm not sure by how much but profits from bundles will be low.

The game has sold more than what i expected. Look at Uncharted 1 it has good legs and could end up selling 3 million so why wouldn´t U2 have just as good legs. I expect U2 to sell atleast 3 million by end of 2010.

 It's probably higher then $30 as they're not paying Sony royalties and stuff, GameStop and co buy the games for ~$45 (Cba to dig up a source), so after the packages and shipping and whatever else $30 seems reasonable.

 I think it didn't sell great, it's kind of sad as even thoguh it's sales are pretty 'meh' in the USA, it'd be unreasonable to have expected it to sell much better. It says more about the PS3's downfall in the USA then Uncharted 2's sales - it's holding up well in Europe though.,

Gamecompany?  I am confused? by gamecompany you mean like SE, Activsion or EA? If it is then, Sony doesn't get the whole $30 they only get a small fraction of it.

Since Uncharted 2 is a First party game $30 is seems about right, no royalties whatsoever and also I think Thesource mention $38? not so sure about that.

As for the advertising budget I can't comment on how much budget Sony use for uncharted. Let's just use your 20 million theory. That leaves about 5 million profit and remember uncharted 2 is still selling.

Didnt they use the same engine as uncharted 1? That would decrease developement cost alot wouldnt it?

http://socialexec.com/2009/02/07/development-uncharted-2-cost/

Read it. It will explain why it cost the same as uncharted 1.

He's Pachter, it doesn't mean anything

Anyways there are other countries outside of the USA, ones where Uncharted 2 is selling very well.

Yeah, I meant gamestudio's.

Even if the advertising buget is 20 million. Then the current profits could still be undercut by the bundling loss. ( Although i don't know if Sony itself takes that for their account. It could be. )

My point was that it wasn't going to make profits (off course it will) but that it would make little profit for a first-party game. Sony does need gamessales to comepensate for the PS3 loses. And first-party should be a big part of that.

Who know u own a Wii or PS3 ........ or neither XD