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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How much do they gross per copy after I guess steam takes their cut and whatever else happens?
Their net per copy is usually ~20-30% less based on sales. Steam charges based on their current sales would be a 25% cut. PS and Xbox usually charge 30% outright.
Ah plenty of room to make money .
Wasn't that not even a good Dragon Age game? I bought it. I guess for whatever reason I bought it is why they sold 12 million.
It was extraordinarily mediocre compared to 2 which was extraordinarily mediocre compared to Origins, at least in my opinion.