NA PS2 - One Last Shot

[Fusionx]

Actually that's the whole idea here. If enough PS2 players are willing to put in the money it would take to make enough copies of the game for them, it proves there's money in it and SE, taking the money upfront, has the profits before it sinks money into the costs.

They had a poll about this- the end result was there wasn't enough people that wanted it.

[Volkai]

They had a poll about this- the end result was there wasn't enough people that wanted it.

At the standard price, yes. That's the whole point of this - figure out if enough people are willing to pay enough money to make it worth doing.

Let's look at this with some possible numbers
If you need, say, 5,000 people buying it at $30 per person to justify manufacture, that's
total funds required: 5,000 * $30 = $150,000

Let's assume most of that ($100,000) is a nonvariable setup/distribution cost. That means the per-person variable cost is $50,000/5,000 = $10

So, if only 3,000 people are willing to pay, they would need to pay on average $(100,000+(3,000*10)=130,000/3,000=$43.34)

Only 1,000 would make that $110 per person (on average).


So, at $30 per disc, there's not enough PS2 players to justify making it. But there might be enough PS2 players willing to pay enough to justify the cost of manufacture. That's the whole point of this thread in the first place, Fusion.

[Ravenmore]

At the standard price, yes. That's the whole point of this - figure out if enough people are willing to pay enough money to make it worth doing.

Let's look at this with some possible numbers
If you need, say, 5,000 people buying it at $30 per person to justify manufacture, that's
total funds required: 5,000 * $30 = $150,000

Let's assume most of that ($100,000) is a nonvariable setup/distribution cost. That means the per-person variable cost is $50,000/5,000 = $10

So, if only 3,000 people are willing to pay, they would need to pay on average $(100,000+(3,000*10)=130,000/3,000=$43.34)

Only 1,000 would make that $110 per person (on average).


So, at $30 per disc, there's not enough PS2 players to justify making it. But there might be enough PS2 players willing to pay enough to justify the cost of manufacture. That's the whole point of this thread in the first place, Fusion.

You also have to take into account the many retailers that are no longer willing to stock or sell new ps2 disc. Now ou could get around this by using the SE store but then SE would have to deal with he mess of shipping each disc over from a warehouse in Japan or expend more money to have a either a warehouse in the states or reline on Amazon to take care of it since gamestop wouldn't even offer it online.