So the recent meme had me do some digging. DA:I was budgeted to cost around $150-200 million in production and marketing costs but sold over 12 million units. Now, granted, DA: V has only been out a month in comparison it at the HIGHEST estimate has sold under 800k with the median estimate at about ~600k. All estimates say median $35 million GROSS revenue. Now if we were to even go crazy and say the production/ marketing cost was the same as DA:I, it would take sales to quadruple/quintuple at CURRENT PRICE just to break even. If this game doesn’t kill BioWare then we truly have a captured market being propped up by funny money, this is a Disney Marvels level fuck up.
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I can’t. Andromeda was such a colossal fuck up that if anything this solidifies that they can’t even sell 1/5 of the copies of a mediocre title a decade ago.
I get what you're saying. My thought process was that they (execs) would give Andromeda a pass since it was done by Bioware Montreal and not the Edmonton studio that made the originals. Don't get me wrong, everything Edmonton has worked on since has been ass, but I can still see them giving the studio "one last shot" with the more proven IP.