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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3
How many copies did they sell? I thought it was reported that the game cost like $150+ million (pretty sure this number is correct).
I'm not sure on the breakdown of profits from computer games (I know it for console games), but I assume like the console games Microsoft gets a cut. Then the retailers get about $20-25 of a $60 sale (this is obviously is different if people bought it digitally).
I'd say they get roughly $30-45 from each sale depending on where people bought it.
They'd need to sell roughly 3.8 million copies to break even.
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Microsoft does not get a cut of any game on the PC, nor any XBox game that they don't publish themselves. quite the opposite in fact, you have Microsoft and Sony paying publishers royalties to have things like exclusive titles for a certain period of time, or bonuses in games for a certain platform (like the additional Assassin's Creed 3 missions for the PS3 version). the retailer cut of a game is also way lower than $20, you're looking at maybe $5 per game. retailers make the bulk of their profits from used games, or strategy guides, or warranties
the bulk of a retail sale will go to the publisher, like EA or Activision, with the rest going to the development team