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. Among the recent spell of leaks involving Insomniac Games’ future titles are presentation slides indicating that the studio's latest release, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, has
  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Then there was probably another 50 mill or so put into the marketing and advertisement on top of that

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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      11 months ago

      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.