Or they could sell 14.4 million at half price, since the actual product can be copied and downloaded as many times as needed.
Sold 5 million in the first 11 days so it’s likely already surpassed that.
The OP article also mentions that they are expecting to sell 11.6 million in the first year. They’re gonna be fine
If they burned through 5 million in 11 days they should be WELL past that by now I’d think…
For most things like games and movies, especially those that are highly anticipated, a huge chunk of sales are immediate. Then there’s a steep drop off in rate of sales.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve long since surpassed their goal, but initial sales are generally just a good indication of initial sales. Not much else.
No, it doesn’t need that many. I read that it will have micro-transactions.
Golly I’m glad they took such a big risk for us undeserving gamers
Then there was probably another 50 mill or so put into the marketing and advertisement on top of that
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.
