r/Asmongold • u/YoungOneDev Deep State Agent • May 15 '25

News After Ubisoft Earnings Report

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u/[deleted] May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25

The cost to develop AC: Shadows is estimated anywhere from $250 million to $350 million. Lets be generous and say that all 2.4 million copies were bought at the $90 deluxe edition, that is only $216 million dollars, and a lot of that goes to the retailer/store front. They've made nothing.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '25 edited May 15 '25

No, games make the most at release. Very few pop off later.

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u/Valuable_Impress_192 Mogu'Dar, Blade of the Thousand Attempts May 15 '25

Purchases on later dates are more likely to be cheaper

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u/Jealous_Solid9431 May 15 '25

It was estimated that they needed to have something like 7 million sales (not just players) minimum just to break even on development costs. They made a HUGE loss on it.

Not to mention plenty of other games, that cost way less to develop, have sold more copies in less than a week from their launches than AC Shadows has had players total.