Plus the 1 million for Stellar Blade (a new IP from a company unknown to console gamers prior its release) was over a 1-month period. The game has undoubtedly sold more since the end of that one month tracking period.
So you know SF6's budget, huh? Link the documents.
So you know Stellar Blade's budget, huh? Link the documents.
Some people use common sense and deduction. What show was more expensive The Last of Us? Or Jeopardy?
The fact that you keep up bringing up the fact that it was a new IP doesn't change how much the game cost to develop.
Stellar Blade fell off the charts hard, just like rise of the ronin.
By that logic the full dev size team for TLOU2 was in fact over 2,000 people...no most of that 2,000 were temp contract positions. Same with HiFi Rush...same with games like Spiderman 2...same with Stellar Blade.
You're pulling a classic game of conflation here.
Yeah, contractors are free now... I'll let companies across the world know that from now on, they don't need to pay their contractors lol... Hope you realize that in many cases contractors are even more expensive than FTEs.
1 million in four weeks for a new IP from a relatively unknown dev to most console gamers is a success no matter how you cut it. Your weird attempt to tongue-twist that into a failure or shortcoming is flawed.
Here you go again with this new IP again or that the dev team was relatively unknown.
Your argument is that this is a success even if it isn't profitable, and I doubt Sony would see it the same way. They've deemed games that have sold way better than this failures, which before you twist it, isn't to say that any game that sells less is a failure, but these games are judged by P/L.
Already attempting to ascribe a negative connotation to a slice of a community because they have an opinion on the platform you don't agree with. Tsk-tsk.
No idea what you're talking about here. You were somehow claiming I should be defending Sony from rhetoric. That's the job of a fanboy. I own a PS5, but I'm not illogically loyal to a plastic box.
When did I said YOU thought highly of this game because it's a PS exclusive? I merely said that there is a very real narrative that a lot of Western games media are trying to push when it comes to the idea of game exclusivity, mainly to the benefit of one platform holder and at the disadvantage of another platform holder.
You're the one who brought up rhetoric and defending against it, like you're a warrior in a console war.
Ironically, the one that narrative is targeted against is the same one you drool over when it comes to talking revenue and profits.
Again, you're making no sense. What narrative do I drool over when it comes to talking revenue and profit?
Well in the case of games like this you haven't made a single portion of your argument based on facts, either. I mean, you don't even have the finance and budgeting documents for Stellar Blade or Street Fighter 6, yet state so assuredly that their budgets "must" be this or that.
That sounds very much like an emotionally (or better to say, ego) driven argument to me :/
Again, you can tell from their public statements that they aren't pleased with the sales. Which is why he is talking about a limited userbase to sell to and options to get their money back on PC.
Once again, you come into something with an agenda, and if it doesn't fit the agenda, you'll argue against it, regardless of reality. Again the same thing that got you in trouble with PSVR2 PC. You wanted it to be streaming, so you said it was definitely going to be streaming, when that didn't make any sense.
He considers the PC port initiatives a success when they can barely generate 30 million profit after 3+ years. But Stellar Blade generating well over 30 million in 1 month is bad? 
just like his corporate overlords.
