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Star Wars Outlaws Has Sold Just 1 Million Copies In The Month Since It Launched (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Estimates have put the game's budget at upwards of $250 million, so they'd need to sell at least 5 times as many copies to even break even. Games (from traditional studios, anyway) are crazy expensive now.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's insane for how many bugs it has. What are they spending this money on? It's clearly not development time

[–] PunkiBas@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Marketing probably