Not sure to be honest. It's probably older if I had to guess (maybe 2022?).
I think that the 2nd chart includes marketing cost and royalty fees to Marvel/Disney (we know they're high), while the 1st chart is only dev cost not including marketing and royalties.
I'm guessing MS covered the dev cost and then Insomniac would only start receiving money after a certain amount of sales were recouped and it didn't sell enough for Insomniac to profit from it.
That's the least of Insomniac's worries based on these charts.lol, Sunset at 1.9, no wonder why it never got a sequel, Xbox players loves new IPs.
that's AAA in a nutshell. This is why consolidation happens.
lol, Sunset at 1.9M, no wonder why it never got a sequel, Xbox players loves new IPs.
Wasn't Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy two of the best selling games the last 2 years alone?Hahaha, because new ips are performing so well for everyone else
The next R&C is on the timeline from the leak actually.
They are making another one in 2028 according to their roadmap
Even existing IP aren't doing well. Rift Apart losing money is really upsetting.Hahaha, because new ips are performing so well for everyone else
The second slide has a lot of questionable numbers and we don't know when it was made. I have a feeling the second slide could be estimates from an early date. At the time the slide was made they thought Wolverine would be after Spider-Man 3 but other slides contradict this, they also have Spider-Man 2 estimated to sell just 10.5m when the first game sold 20m on PS4 in 2 years. So I'm not convinced that the bottom slide is very relevant in 2023 there's quite a few areas where the numbers look questionable to say the least. Sony were estimating $52m in Revenue from 1.5m sales just from the PC release of Spider-Man Remastered. These numbers state $50m Revenue for 4 million sales.
I'm not surprised at all. R&C was always a budget series. PS3 games were coming out brand new for $40. Then they decided to make this game one of the very first $70 games ever from any company.
Ratchet games tend to serve as system showcases for Sony + a prototyping new weapon and ability ideas to be used in other games.
I'd much rather play something like that on the system than the ____ open world collect-a-thon that most of these Sony 1st party games fall into. I'll take platformers anyway I can take it. Just sucks the current PS consumer only wants the big blockbuster titles(GOW/Horizon/Last of Us/UC) and won't give anything else a try.
Stop making fun, focused games, and churn out Ubisoft derivative trash but with a superhero coating instead?
So just change the entire identity of the series. Kindly piss off.
And now they are doing 20 million+ copies. Win-win-win.
Not for fans of Insomniac not interested in Marvel. It's a real bummer. I'm a big fan of their pre-Marvel stuff.
Point one, R&C Playstation 5 came out short after the PS5 was hitting the streets and you could almost not buy one cous Sony could not produce enough and scalpers where buying them on mass.
Point one, R&C Playstation 5 came out short after the PS5 was hitting the streets and you could almost not buy one cous Sony could not produce enough and scalpers where buying them on mass.
Point two, these are old numbers they will be much higer now.
Point three, Insomniac is working on a new R&C
