Proceeds to quote random figure with nothing to back it up.
it's called common knowledge, you can do a little research about average percentage.
Another random figure with nothing to back it up. In fact, we have plenty of evidence to suggest that it sold nowhere near this amount in its first week or even its first month. After that, the game was so heavily discounted that any additional sales figures would be kind of pointless, not that we have any.
I'd normally say "your guess is good as mine", but that's not the case.
Your 100k guess is out of this world, you don't even break-even with that figures...
No way Deep silver would say "it sold fine" if that was the case.
So for a AA game to get a kind of profit we are talking about minimum (minimum) 250k-300k.
Also majority of non-nintendo games are heavily discounted in few months, that's how the current market works.
Yakuza games are the same, and I think sega still counts these "pointless" figures when they say "great, it sold 1 million" and the end of the year lol
I’m sure there are plenty of them, though, unsurprisingly, publishers don’t tend to come out and celebrate their games failing. There have been Sonic games that have sold fewer than 500,000 copies though. Babylon’s Fall and Chocobo GP bombed pretty hard as well, iirc.
babylon fall was a gaas, not a standard game
I don't know about chocobo gp, if it's a AA game or something, while the sonic game that failed was the cheap and broken one, Sonic Boom, exclusive to a failed console (Wiiu).
Another person who thought that making and selling games was “no big deal”.
You sure as hell implied it. What was it that you said? Even the worst indie games sell 500,000 these days. It’s not that difficult. It’s no big deal.
If any of this were true we’d already have Shenmue 4.
I think it’s probably best that we end the conversation here as we’re just going around in circles and starting to derail the thread.
It meant something different, not that's easy, but that in the current market there are more possibilities and even indie can surpass 1 million, so the excuse of Shenmue being niche can't be used.
Shenmue has everything to be (again) a million seller franchise.
