
Originally Posted by
Volkai
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.