From Cosmik (again). Holy cow!
DUE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A POST NUCLEAR
APOCALYPTIC WORLD RESULTING FROM THE COLD WAR
(1945-1990), ALL CONSUMERS 20 AND OLDER WILL
HAVE SOME TIES TO FALLOUT AND WILL BE INTRIGUED
TO FIND OUT IN THIS VIRTUAL WORLD: “AND WHAT IF THE
NUCLEAR WAR REALLY HAD HAPPENED?”
LOL!
Preproduction Budget $5,000,000.00
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Production Budget $40,000,000.00
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Launch Budget $30,000,000.00
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Production Start January 2007
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Launch Date July 2010
Money hats!
Return on investment is expected within the first 3 years
Interplay’s management was involved in the World of Warcraft project at
Vivendi
But WoW was a success IN SPITE of Vivendi. And it’s worth reminding that Vivendi had caused many Blizzard’s key developers to leave and start their own studios. Of today also the news that Red 5 got fundings.
– REACH 1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS DURING THE FIRST YEAR
– PROFITABLE YEAR 2
– REVENUE OF 160M$ PER YEAR AFTER FIRST
– NET INCOME OF OVER 50M$ PER YEAR STARTING YEAR 3
It is worth reading the whole thing but I had already problems in the past with something similar, you know. So I just quoted those point more relevant.
Some random thoughts:
1- It’s just a silly suspect or this whole thing was put together just by marketers with their heads in the clouds?
2- Bethesda will do Fallout 3, single player. They have repeated a number of times that they don’t have the license for a MMO. So, again, who the hell is working on this? Is there a Shadow Development group that we never heard about till today and that is able to release an AAA mmorpg in the span of exactly three years and seven months? Yeah sure. And Father Christmas is going to hand me a game designer job the 25 of this month.
4- I like how the studies on the market are made by SirBruce :)
5- And the money. From where they’ll got $75 Millions? Didn’t Interplay fail? Fail isn’t = to “no money”. I don’t know business speak, so forgive my naivete.
6- When they list the “few” competitors they forget SOE, Mythic, Funcom, CCP, Turbine. And of course all the new companies that could release by when this Fallout thing is supposed to launch, such as Bioware, GMG, Spacetime Studios, Red 5.
7- Join the “1 Millions subs is easy!” club. T-shirts soon.