In order for gow3 to make profit!

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#1 zouhou
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They said during an interview that gow3 cost 44 million dollars to make! So i did the math if they want to make a decent profit they will need to sell 8 million 60 dollar copys and that would make them 48 million dollars with a 4 million dollar profit!

We all know gow3 is going to be epic and it already has a loyal fan base but look at uncharted one the best games ever in my opinion it barley broke the 1 million mark. So what are your guys opinions do u guys think that gow3 will sell its its 8million or above??

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#2 Floppy_Jim
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Lol, that would make them $480,000,000. Not all of that money would even go to Sony but they don't need anywhere near 8 million sold to make a profit on the game. Plus Uncharted sold 3.5 million+....

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#3 zouhou
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Lol, that would make them $480,000,000. Not all of that money would even go to Sony but they don't need anywhere near 8 million sold to make a profit on the game. Plus Uncharted sold 3.5 million+....

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oh crap read the numbers wrong my bad lol!

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#4 Floppy_Jim
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[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]

Lol, that would make them $480,000,000. Not all of that money would even go to Sony but they don't need anywhere near 8 million sold to make a profit on the game. Plus Uncharted sold 3.5 million+....

zouhou

oh crap read the numbers wrong my bad lol!

No worries :P 8 million would be fantastic but I think it'll finish at 4-4.5 million LTD.

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#5 fend_oblivion
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The previous games haven't sold more than 3 million. God of War 3 might have a chance to sell more than 4 million but I still have my doubts.

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#6 Nonstop-Madness
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GOW3 will only need to sell around 1 - 2 million to break even. Im predicting 4 +million. PS - Uncharted 1 and 2 have both sold over 3 million.
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#7 pete_merlin
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You'd be surprised how many people will buy a PS3 for this game. They then buy other games and sony makes a profit that way

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#8 djvj_y2k
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all i can say is................. wow you're good at math! anyways, wow that expensive to make a video game? hmm.. well goodluck to the people who made this game.

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#9 El_PS3_Best
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They will sell over 10 million copies easily.

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#10 El_PS3_Best
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They were the first to put a game on a 50gb Bluray disc.

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#11 svenus97
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Well since in most countries Video Games are more expensive, they would need to sell little less.

For example, a 60 USD game costs 500 HRK(CroatianKuna) which is 94.68 USD.

Oh... and we don't even have a PlayStationStore :(

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#12 newhighscore
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We will ALL be profiting when we finally get to play the final masterpeice in this epic saga.

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#13 Symphonycometh
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It's God of War. It'll be fine.
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#14 Ratchet_Fan8
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so you mean that YOU get a share of some Profit from Santa monica?? damn!!! lucky!
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#15 oajlu
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lol you need to redo math.

accordign to your theory, it's around 800k, not 8 million...i think they can make profit as long as they sell more than2 million.

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#16 parvie
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We will ALL be profiting when we finally get to play the final masterpeice in this epic saga.

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Couldn't have said it better myself.
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#17 gamer082009
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I think they'll be fine. Most of the well known Sony exclusives seem to sell well, especially the last gen ones.
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#18 Puscifer_No1
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Since when did gamers care whether devs/pubs made enough money on a certain game? :|

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#19 Elian2530
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I read somewhere on how each copy of a game sold is shared in terms of profit, or net worth. 7 dollars goes to distribution, meaning for every game they dont sell, this $7 tries to make up for those copies collecting dust, the majority share goes to the retailer, one to the publisher, then the developer. I think the developer gets about 25% of the cut or less. This should help your math..
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#20 gamer082009
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Since when did gamers care whether devs/pubs made enough money on a certain game? :|

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Well naturally if a game does well, and it's financially a success that means we can expect more games from them. I always hope certain companies do well in order for them to keep developing. So it's nothing unusual at all.
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#21 NotAFurry
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all i can say is................. wow you're good at math! anyways, wow that expensive to make a video game? hmm.. well goodluck to the people who made this game.

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#22 BlackhawkBix
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It's God of War 3. It will do well.