Sony Interactive Entertainment and Insomniac Games' latest web-swinging adventure, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, requires sales of 7.2 million copies at full price in order to break even, as the game has a colossal budget of over $300 million.
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They know these games sell systems. This and another recent headline about PS+ titles being Sony exclusives costing the company amount or whatever....
They know a huge part of why these projects are worth the cost is outside of sales of that game and as a mechanism to maintain market dominance.
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This is why I'm generally okay with Playstation exclusives, aside from the fact that most of them are IPs that wouldn't even exist otherwise. They're okay with higher budgets to maintain that higher level of quality.
It’s a fantastic game that improved on the first games in nearly every way. They’ll hit it and easily surpass it, especially as more people get their PS5’s.
Do you know anyone who wants a ps5 who doesn't have one already irl?
Personally I left consoles behind in the 360/ps3 era, luckily Sony has been porting games to PC.
I hope they continue that trend instead of slipping back into forced exclusives, I like being able to play the games, but not enough to buy a console again.
Yes, several. Some of the people are waiting for their kids’ birthdays, others are waiting on a specific release, and still others are waiting to see if a slim version comes out (with the disk).
This is a fucking nothing article that is already outdated. The fucking piece of shit clickbait title tries to imply they are struggling to break even when they could not be further from the truth.
downvote it and move on, giving it attention only gets replies like 'welcome to lemmy' - not really helpful - or people looking to argue about pedantry.
Hell, I have a ps5 and now that they release games on pc it’s hard for me to justify buying anything for the PlayStation when I can wait to play on my desktop or steam deck.
Start with 1 (remastered or not, changes are cosmetic and negligible). If you like it, miles morales is short and necessary story wise to play 2. They all play and feel pretty similar so if you don't like 1 don't bother with the next 2
It's possible that that 300 million budget is already accounting for all the marketing expenses. Skyrim's budget was 100 million, of which ~15m was marketing.
It's possible. But I know in the film industry they will sometimes spend just as much on marketing as they did on making the whole damn movie now. And their budgets are generally reported separately