oh c'mon now. analyst projections - says it all. look at avatar the game as one of the more successful recent tie ins. 1.7 million sold on three (four with DS) platforms. with a movie tie in in the PS2 days you could have ended up with that alone on one platform and perhaps sell another half of that on the gamecube. open…
I work for a studio notorious for this. High School Musical took around 6-8 months to make with 60 people for 5 SKUs. (PS2, Xbox, GC, DS, PSP) Because it was a Montreal development, the subsidies from the government brought it to the cost of 30 devs. The collective sales on all of those SKUs outsold God of War 2 to 1. Lets…