@Dezzy Breath of the Wild only needed to sell 2 million to ensure it broke even, and that was a game that had an extensive development time and marketing push. Nintendo must work to real small budgets.
Yeah see even with one of their biggest games ever, they're quite financially conservative.
There's almost no way that wouldn't sell 2 million. Even if the Switch console bombed, it would still sell 2 million copies because of the Wii U version.
I wonder how those numbers compare to something like Red Dead 2. There's probably quite a huge gap. (how many it needed to sell to break even)
@Dezzy Don't Rockstar Games typically have crazy big budgets in development and marketing? I think it was over $100 million wasn't it? But I imagine for Rockstar and Take Two, because of the huge amount of money they will make each month from the online portion through micro transactions, it must scale down the number of game units they need to sell to break even. I don't know I am just guessing.
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@FragRed RDR2 sold more than 23 million copies in February. I think it's safe to say that they've recouped the costs. And I believe GTAV sold even better. Their games just print money, with or without the MTX.
Does anyone else find the gameplay of Red Dead 2 a bit of an old hat? All the story missions make you go just in the right spot to do this exact right thing. I didn’t want to pay full for the game so I got it in the digital sale. Enjoying it for the most part, but I don’t like when open world games are only designed with one solution for various problems. Like they give you this vast toy box and require you only play with this toy in this certain way. Seems a bit of a waste.
God of War is pretty awesome, but it's pretty tough to gauge how far I am into it. I'm only at about 33% completion of the main realm (I know this also counts optional things), but I have about half of the main map revealed, and only have one health & rage upgrade left to unlock (the apple & blood mead collectables).
Story wise I'm at the point where I found out the witch is the goddess Frejya, which is shortly after defeating that electric dragon at the top of the mountain.
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23 million is so mental for a game about cowboys. Not exactly the most mainstream genre nowadays.
How do Rockstar manage to almost create an audience out of thin air? That number of people almost never buy anything else. Not since the Wii and DS era.
Looks like my tax return should be good enough to pick up a PSVR, so I'm pretty excited!
A little nervous as I don't know how well I'll get on with it, but I've never been bothered by 3D (either movies or on 3DS), so hopefully that's a good sign (I know VR will be more intense, though).
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@Dezzy No idea. I didn't pay attention to the marketing, but I'm certain there must've been an in-game ad in GTA V trying to sell RDR2
No, but seriously, it's weird. I get that GTA is a thing. But unless you know both of them were developed by the same company, I don't get the overlap, and let's be honest, most people have no clue who are the developers behind the games they play. They did have a crazy marketing budget though, their trailers were played in the cinema, alongside trailers for upcoming films; I've seen it several times last year.
@RR529 I don't really get motion sick, and I'm not bothered by 3D. I'm not sure it's related, but I don't have a problem with VR either. Astro Bot is a must have title by the way.
Plus games for March. Thought for sure they'd at least throw in a VR game with dropping ps3/vita but only 2. Will give COD a go, hard pass on the witness though always seemed like something I'd get frustrated with
I don't think I'll even bother adding March's PS+ games to my library.
Ugh.
Same. What a letdown. CoD4R wasn't a good remaster, especially considering how stingy activision is. And I already have The Witness via Humble Bundle, so I'll have that even if I cancel my subscription. Really wished "removing PS3/Vita" didn't equate to "we're going to give you less because we know you're already too invested to do anything about it".
@Ralizah Less games, but they are highly rated. The only problem with offering less is that there's a fat chance you already own one or two of them. That's why I think the free games are stupid; if there's a game I'm interested in, I probably own it already anyway.
Took me quite a few tries (I even had to leave for a bit to upgrade my weapons and armor before coming back, and still had to use a resurrection stone), but I managed it. I've been doing side stuff around the Lake of Nine ever since the water level dropped the second time, and there have been some tough enemies!
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