L.G. Estrella's Blog, page 68
November 22, 2013
Final Fantasy Series Sales Talk (The Intriguing Case of Final Fantasy XIII)
Game sales matter. If a game fails to sell, it can become very difficult to justify sequels and additional content. This is particularly true in certain circumstances:
a) The game required a very high development budget. The more a game costs to make, the more it must sell to first break even and then make a profit. Development studios that are not profitable do not tend to last very long. In contrast those that make more money for the parent company tend to be showered with more funds and attention (although this can backfire – ask Blizzard).
b) The game required a very long time to make. The more development time a game requires, the more copies it must sell. This isn’t related solely to monetary cost (although bloated development times often lead to budget blow outs). It is also a matter of opportunity cost. If your best development team is making one game, then they are not making another. A game that sells poorly after occupying the best development team has robbed the studio of the chance to use that team on another game that might have sold better.
c) The studio responsible for the game does not release many games. A studio that releases twenty games in a given time period can afford to have a few of them fail, provided the failures are outweighed by the successes. A studio that only makes one game cannot afford to have it fail. Read more on my blog…
a) The game required a very high development budget. The more a game costs to make, the more it must sell to first break even and then make a profit. Development studios that are not profitable do not tend to last very long. In contrast those that make more money for the parent company tend to be showered with more funds and attention (although this can backfire – ask Blizzard).
b) The game required a very long time to make. The more development time a game requires, the more copies it must sell. This isn’t related solely to monetary cost (although bloated development times often lead to budget blow outs). It is also a matter of opportunity cost. If your best development team is making one game, then they are not making another. A game that sells poorly after occupying the best development team has robbed the studio of the chance to use that team on another game that might have sold better.
c) The studio responsible for the game does not release many games. A studio that releases twenty games in a given time period can afford to have a few of them fail, provided the failures are outweighed by the successes. A studio that only makes one game cannot afford to have it fail. Read more on my blog…
November 19, 2013
I'm Finally on Goodreads!
After a great deal of procrastinating, I've finally set up a profile over here on Goodreads. I'm looking forward to many a lively discussion.
I also have a blog on Wordpress, but for various reasons it isn't importing properly over here (it is doing weird things to the paragraph spacing that no amount of tinkering can fix). So instead of importing, I'll be doing a bit of cutting and pasting to try and clean up the look of things.
Anyway, here's a link to my Wordpress blog.
I also have a blog on Wordpress, but for various reasons it isn't importing properly over here (it is doing weird things to the paragraph spacing that no amount of tinkering can fix). So instead of importing, I'll be doing a bit of cutting and pasting to try and clean up the look of things.
Anyway, here's a link to my Wordpress blog.
