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Shadow of the Tomb Raider Has Shipped Just Over 4 Million Units

Shadow of the Tomb Raider managed to ship approximately 4.12 million units by the end of December 2018, according to comments made by the president of Square Enix, Yosuke Matsuda, earlier this month.

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SuperSonic911893d ago

I think that is decent sales.

Sciurus_vulgaris1893d ago

Keep in Shadow of The Tomb Raider had a development budget that was pretty steep (75-100 Million Canadian Dollars + 35 million marketing). The sales are decent but the game might not have broken even yet.

Budget Source: https://www.google.com/amp/...

SuperSonic911893d ago

Thanks. I appreciate the info.

Sevir1893d ago

That's just over 100 million USD.
At (call it) $65 after tax, selling 4 million units, they'd have made 260 million. Square has said time and time again that their Games haven't sold well. They said the same thing when the first game in the reboot and Hitman games both sold in excess of 3 million units.

Perhaps the conversation rate from Canadian dollars to Yen offset profit for square. But maybe they need to downsize scope of their projects and shorten development times and cut budgets. Because they seem to over estimate their games every quarter. I hope KH3 has made them profitable. It's sold 5.7 million units, development started in 2012, and was overhauled and delayed due to a switch in development engineer. Working with Disney and A list voice actors from Hollywood and the music industry couldn't have come cheap.

elazz1893d ago

@Sevir

Do you really believe the average price was 65USD? Maybe for the first 1.5m copies but after that it is more like 45USD or maybe even lower.

Also you have to subtract the tax, distribution costs, retail cut and platform cut

So let's put the average price at 50USD once vat is paid just for easy calculation.

Platform royalty is 7 dollars
Retail margin is around 12 dollars
Distribution cost will be 3 dollars

So they keep 28USD already for each copy sold at retail. For digital copies they keep around 38USD because of no retail margin/distribution but higher royalties.

56m earned in retail if half were retail sales
76m earned in digital if half were digital sales

Total revenue for Square is around 132m dollars.

If we then remove the development costs of 100m USD their gross earnings would 32m for this game alone (not including costs of square operating but this is an okay start but earnings won't be that much higher with the game being around 20usd now)

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Italiano12345671893d ago

4 million shipped not sold is not a good figure for a multiplatform big budget triple A title

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PhoenixUp1893d ago

That means Shadow of the Tomb Raider quickly outsold Dragon Quest XI.

Imortus_san1893d ago

It already outsold many games good, the problem is the other two games sold much much more.

GameBoyColor1893d ago

And they were disappointed in the sales of the other 2 games. They did not break even yet with this title. I bet they are probably very unhappy with the series.

Imortus_san1893d ago

I guess you just have no ideia about the sales numbers have you!!
The first reboot has sold more than 11 million copies, and Rise sold more then 7 million, if they are "disappointed" with the sales then they are on crack.

GameBoyColor1892d ago

I guess they are on crack then cuz thats exactly what they said lmao

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein4h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii51m ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo17m ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows909m ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

qalpha37m ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno32m ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan13m ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Gaming4Life198117m ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno20h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno27m ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga20h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator14h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac12h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto1d 23h ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger881d 17h ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19811d 4h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein1d 2h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.