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And budgets have exploded 200x from the 1-3M N64 game days. It's utterly disproportionate. If you look at the most profitable games (Blizzard, Valve, Riot) they
by chiaro 9y ago
And budgets have exploded 200x from the 1-3M N64 game days. It's utterly disproportionate. If you look at the most profitable games (Blizzard, Valve, Riot) they're moving away from sticker prices altogether.
- izacus 9y agoI'm not talking N64 days, e.g. typical EA example is Dead Space - the first one sold 1 million copies and was considered a huge success. Such a success that they bootstrapped a whole franchise. And that's not a N64 type game. It's third installment, Dead Space 3, was slated to sell minimum of 5 million copies. With less than 5 million, EA decided that it's not going to be profitable enough. It also had microtransactions and DLCs on top of those required 5 million copies sold. Who's greedy here?