Some Nobody
Junior Member
Nah, the top racing game franchises consistently do well. GT5 sold some stupid amount of copies.
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Nah, the top racing game franchises consistently do well. GT5 sold some stupid amount of copies.
In short, a whole lot of guessing and very little of fact checking.
bloodyroarxx
Member
It depends how much of the cost of the original engine is defaulted into FF13's budget or would square count it against both games?
Do we even know what engine FF15 is running on? Is it Crystal Tools or Luminous Engine?
EDIT: Also wasn't the Versus team pulled off for a while to help with FF14? does that time count against XV's budget?
Secks4Food
Member
Some of those numbers are really surprising, surely Crysis 3 wasn't profitable was it?
The Hermit
Member
the img they are using on the Wii play is very nice, does anyone know where it is from?
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Tangled cost $250+M to make? Ridiculous. $60M more than Toy Story 3 (with dat voice actors costs... On the other side, errr, Mandy Moore) and 100 more than Wreck-it-Ralph.
I'm sure it banked high at the box-office, I think only The Lion King grossed more for Disney, but it seems a mismanaged production nontheless.
I'm sure it banked high at the box-office, I think only The Lion King grossed more for Disney, but it seems a mismanaged production nontheless.
Gorgeous hallways though.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
How are they those maths? MKWii sold 5 more millions than Black Ops and it is lower.
How much did they cost on retail? I'm guessing $49.99 for MK and $59.99 for Black Ops.
How much did they cost on retail? I'm guessing $49.99 for MK and $59.99 for Black Ops.
that's like a no brainer.I think it will definitely be the most expensive FF of all time.
Different situation, most of that budget was spent developing Cry Engine 3 most likely. It is money they will make back in licensing the engine.
bloodyroarxx
Member
Tangled was a hand animated movie (Rapunzel) with different leads that were all done that was totally scrapped and remade into Tangled with Moore and Levi
bloodyroarxx
Member
Multiple SKU's and DLC
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Well, in EU you had MK's mrsp at 49.99 while Blobs' was 64.99.
That's a big difference right there.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
And this is why Nintendo is not in the same situation Sega was in with the Dreamcast (even if these numbers aren't 100% accurate).
Um....THE BeSt FuCkInG hallways evr? !??!?!
Some Nobody
Junior Member
Coffee Dog
Banned
Tangled (as well as John Carter I believe) had an incredibly troubled production. It got started and restarted so many times it caused it to be a large moneysink.
PshycoNinja
Member
Nope. That honor will always belong to FFXIV with 1.0 and the "oh god we messed up" 2.0 built from ground up version.
Which leads me to my second point. This list is full of crap. There have been hundreds of games that have been made for more than 12 million. No way in hell Half Life should be on this list. Hence this list is full of crap. Just look at the source.
The Hermit
Member
monthly fees truly are something
When gamers continue to willingly purchase Nintendo products, I can't really see how gamers in general are getting "ripped off."
silver.tongue
Member
Game started as a PS2 game... then went to early (really hard) PS3 development. I think the game has it's own engine...
I think all of that is beeing taken in consideration to get to that number.
SweetTeddie
Member
I knew Gran Tourismo 3 was big, but not THAT big. Also, the Nintendo sure made some bank on the Wii. Amazing they don't make even more of those games than they already do.
Um...the GTAV budget is including marketing and some if not all of the movie budgets are not.
Avatar's budget is known to be in the neighborhood of ~$240m for production+~$150m in marketing. So at the very least this one is way off
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Yeah none of those movie budgets are including marketing. Great research there.
Avatar's budget is known to be in the neighborhood of ~$240m for production+~$150m in marketing. So at the very least this one is way off
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Yeah none of those movie budgets are including marketing. Great research there.
what?
You know what they say.. vote with your wallet.
Seems most don't mind.. er.. being "ripped" off
How do they rip off gamers? I mean they put "Mario Kart" on the box and you get Mario Kart and so on.
The estimated development cost for Halo 4 is said to be around $60 million. According to Phil Spencer, Halo is a $3 billion franchise, and that Halo 4 was Microsoft's most expensive project to date.
JordanN
Banned
I'm referring to their other practices, not them selling the game.
Please enlighten us.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Not accurate list. What about Bioshock Infinite and Halo 4?
$12/month on average since 2005 for me. What is that.... $1150? Factor out a couple years of breaks, but then factor in some character transfers....yeah. $1000. Don't really regret it. Been a great decade (basically) of gaming. Haha.
And Sony bled out all of that money with the PS3. While Nintendo was making huge profit even during the GameCube days, their peak of irrelevance.
People hugely underestimate how much of an impact having guaranteed multimillion-selling IPs has. Having games like Mario Kart explode in sales is the icing on that money cake.
entremet
Member
Please elaborate. We're not mind readers.
Way more than that for some.
TurtleSnatcher
Member
They state it has sold 10 million copies. It has sold way more than that. In fact.. just a few years ago it had 12 million users.. 12 > 10 million so you know alone they had way more copies then 10 million sold.