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Where are you getting those numbers though? Do you have numbers on how much Mass Effect 2 cost to make?
If you calculate their sales of 2.76 million (taken from here: Game Database, Best Selling Video Games, Game Sales, Million Sellers, Top Selling - VGChartz), and this isn't even counting the PC and PS3 versions, you get:
$60 * 2,760,000 = $165,600,000
According to here, the developer usually gets about 30% of the cut: Where does my money go? Article • Page 1 • Articles • Eurogamer.net
$165,600,000=$49,680,000
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I'm gonna be honest, I was fairly intoxicated when i made my original post, but I'm going to try defend it just for arbitrary practice.
When Shenmue (dreamcast) came out it costed 70 million. GTA 4,100 million. I couldn't find mass effect specifically, but it has really high production values, voice work, fully orchestrated soundtrack. Im guessing it wasn't cheap.
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I'm not sure what you're getting at. I didn't say I wanted Steam on my Xbox. They already have a Steam-like service, my point is they don't offer the kind of deals for it that you see on Steam.
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Thats because steam uses PC propriety. It's easy to upload a version of fallout 1 or some other old 90's pc game and charge it for virtually nothing. If you want to put that game on console your going to need a team to port it which costs money and stuff.
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I'm not telling anyone how to spend their money. Honestly, Kirby seems like the kind of guy who will pay $150 for a Resident Evil game if it comes with a Leon figurine and a Umbrella Corp. duffelbag, so I think it's safe to say he represents a small part of video game players. I just don't like the way the industry is headed. Things were a lot simpler last gen, and the better for it (except stupid Xbox, which basically paved the way to where we are today).
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The industry is heading towards greatness dog. You know what sucked last gen? Having a bug in a game and
not being able to patch it. Remember memory cards? those sucked too.
Everythings getting better all the time