but half the money would stay with the company, and actually would go for other costs like printing discs and marketing and ****...Those are weird numbers though.....and that's not accounting for the budget to begin with.
edit with more weird numbers
Example Budget 2.5 million
half the money goes to 8 employees $1,250,000
the other half goes to costs
$250,000 Development Kits single console (a guess..depends on the console)
$250,000 licensed game engine
$ 67,200 Office space 3600 sq ft 2 years (austin texas)
$ 13,592 High End Computers
$ 6,000 bi-yearly electricity
$ 3,200 Budget computers
$ 3,000 Accessories
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$592,812
$1,250,000 costs
- $592,812
- $200,000 printing 66,666 discs at $3 a disk(i know each disc prolly costs much less, and they would probably make
you order $70,000)
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$457,188 left over for health packages/dental/continuity/execututives
thats a budget of 2.5 million dollars that breaks even selling 50,000 copies at $50 a piece with 8 overpaid
employees, not counting executive pay
a capcom budget
now a capcom game is successful if it sales 250,000 copies(which is the break even for most budgets), which would yield 12.5 million dollars, but a capcom game will have 12-30 people working on it. How much would a budget be if it were to break even?
publishing
250,000 * $3 per disk (again a guess)
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$750,000
$250,000 Development Kits single console
$250,000 licensed game engine (which capcom may or may not use)
$ 67,200 Office space 3600 sq ft 2 years (guestimate)
$ 13,592 High End Computers
$ 6,000 bi-yearly electricity
$ 3,200 Budget computers
$ 3,000 Accessories
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$592,812 overhead
30 non executive employees $80,000 average salary (some are paid more than others)
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$2,400,000
12,500,000
2,400,000
750,000
- 592,812
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$8,757,188....which fits if a budget is 10 million
capcom is publisher #14 making $924 million a year (in revenue), they spend $843 million a year on expenses and then make 81 million in net income...they have 1,200 employees
its funny now im reading some stuff on ea...wtf are they doing this year trying to run the company into the ground?