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Game's that Lost Money?
Mike-OPN2000:
Does anyone know if Nintendo and Silikon Knights lost money on Eternal Darkness? I know that last I heard, it only sold about 500k copeis world wide before the price dropped.
RickPowers:
Console games can sell very little and still make money. I'd be surprised to find out that Eternal Darkness lost the company money. It certainly didn't perform up to expectations, though, which is disappointing.
Sean:
I remember a commedian, years ago, joking about how we're all so hung up on sales and box-office intake for movies, etc. by saying he knew it was bad when his cab driver was warning him against a movie he had said he wanted to see because it only made x-dollars over the weekend and couldn't be worth his time. And, as you know, x-dollars isn't good.
When you reflect on that, it's hard to imagine that movies have been around for over a hundred years and only relatively recently have we really paid a lot of attention the box office. This has extended to everything, pretty much. I'm not complaining, just talking.
Moonwatcher:
Yeah it does seem to be a more recent development that we follow sales charts and box-office takes. What is sad is how a product's sales can often color people's opinions of it.
BlkPaladin:
I haven't heard of really any title that hasn't at least pulled its weight.