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SUNSET OVERDRIVE MADE INSOMNIAC JUST $567 PROFIT
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Sleepwalker
Member
Game sucked
64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
You're perfect gamepass material.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
I am not that cheap.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
That doesn't make sense. It made so little profit because it wasn't multiplatform. The $50 million revenue basically just covered the cost to make it. Any port - the revenue would have been almost straight profit - likely why they released a deeply belated PC port.
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64bitmodels
Reverse groomer.
your posts are as low quality as most of the Gamepass fodder though. especially in PC threads, put that shit in the bargain bin
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Banjo64
cumsessed
It does make sense. Lots of games are made for one platform and make a profit (more than £400).
JackMcGunns
Member
Dun... dun... Console war-ring!!, dun... dun, what is it good for.... absolutely no ting!
MasterDerico
Member
??? I have both, i play the games not onsoles, i drink the tea, not the cup.Wrong platform though.
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AndrewRyan
Member
Xbox fans didn't appreciate Insomniac at the time. They built their reputation on Playstation with players like me who buy anything they make day 1. It's kind of like Protoype- a fun sandbox to jump/slide around wrecking havoc.
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Salty Popsicle
Banned
I guess Ratchet & Clank didn't get the memo. That game is $8 million in the hole.
radewagon
Member
Yeah. If this $567 bucks is money left over after paying for the production, then it seems like not too bad a deal. Sure, it's not ideal by a long shot, but everyone working on the game got to keep a roof over their heads and food in their families bellies.
Omnipunctual Godot
Gold Member
I mean, I'm sure it did sell some consoles. It was one of the few Xbox exclusives I remember missing.
Kaiserstark
Member
For information with the recent data now we know that Ratchet was profitable because for the fiscal Year 2021, the game had made $145,000,000 and it's budget was around $80,000,000.
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ChorizoPicozo
Member
It was actually profitable in the end. Some time in Feb 2022 they updated the figure to 2.72 million copies with a reported $145 million in sales against an $81 million budget.
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DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
I did buy an xbox one for sunset overdrive, you're right!
scarlet0pimp
Member
Just bought it to help them out
T4keD0wN
Member
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Banjo64
cumsessed
Legitimately hilarious and should serve a stark warning to Sony to get their dev times/costs in line.
YeulEmeralda
Member
And why they're signing up with GamePass and Epic.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Ratchet made $145 million in revenue in one year on a new console that only had 8 or so million units sold. I'm sure Ratchet has turned a profit by now.
Spyxos
Gold Member
What a shame, such a great game.Following the recent devastating leak from a ransomware attack, Insomniac Games’ future has been laid out for the internet to see. Everything from in-development games to the firm’s internal, aspirational roadmap, and employee information was released by malicious operators who attempted to secure millions of dollars for the data.
In a financial document, the development costs, sales, and shares for every game Insomniac has worked on for years were revealed in full. It was noted by eagle-eyed gamers that Sunset Overdrive, the 2014 game co-developed by Insomniac Games, has netted the company just $567 in profit since it was released.
Sunset Overdrive Made Insomniac Just $567 Profit
It has been revealed that Sunset Overdrive made Insomniac Games just $567 since being released back in 2014, but why?insider-gaming.com
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
Uhm... Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart as of the last week of Feb 2022 is at $145M net sales with a total budget of ~$81M so it def not made 'negative money'.
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Just to remind some people here. The development was paid by Microsoft and Microsoft was the publisher. They more or less just paid for developing a game with no risk for the studio. So of course they don't make much profit with that. Contract work like this keeps studios alive as it pays the daily bills while they can build their engine (that was also used for the spiderman games) and get more experienced.
Wouldn't be surprised if the studio doesn't make much profit right now, as they are also more or less contractors by son (ok sony bought them) but that also means the whole profit goes directly to Sony, not to the studio.
Wouldn't be surprised if the studio doesn't make much profit right now, as they are also more or less contractors by son (ok sony bought them) but that also means the whole profit goes directly to Sony, not to the studio.
Dorfdad
Gold Member
Perfectly budgeted. Keeps the lights on employees paid and making a game that they love! And they can buy a few series s's for Christmas gifts!!! WIN / WIN??Following the recent devastating leak from a ransomware attack, Insomniac Games’ future has been laid out for the internet to see. Everything from in-development games to the firm’s internal, aspirational roadmap, and employee information was released by malicious operators who attempted to secure millions of dollars for the data.
In a financial document, the development costs, sales, and shares for every game Insomniac has worked on for years were revealed in full. It was noted by eagle-eyed gamers that Sunset Overdrive, the 2014 game co-developed by Insomniac Games, has netted the company just $567 in profit since it was released.
Sunset Overdrive Made Insomniac Just $567 Profit
It has been revealed that Sunset Overdrive made Insomniac Games just $567 since being released back in 2014, but why?
JackMcGunns
Member
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Wow are some people dense trying to make this sound like a normal or even a good thing, that's how studios die or have to be sold off (guess what happened to them) when if just one game flops like this that means that they can't keep the lights on past its last development day, maybe they have another project paid by someone else going at the same time so are ok (but obviously that someone will only pay for their project so if it only took half the team they'd not pay for the rest of the studio now that it's available after the other game is done) but obviously profit enough to neither need external influence nor risk a shutdown or buyout would be the ideal goal and not having to roam palm open begging for a cash advance willing to make crap to keep the lights on (not exactly easy to even succeed with when your just released game shows sales so bad it won't break even for years).
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SCB3
Member
The worst part of these all these leaks recently is that there is no new inFamous or Killzone or in Insomniacs case, no new Resistance games at all
Salty Popsicle
Banned
It's nice that you want to share with us your daily makeup routine, but I don't think this is the place for that.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
jm89
Member
Did you even read the tweet?
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Yea, did you? Everyone was saying this morning that it lost 8M but apparently it was misinterpreted. Nobody is a clown here except you.
jm89
Member
What was misinterpreted?