>>58490488We always say the franchise is too big to fail but the fucking budgets are too low to fail. The threshold to break even is too fucking low. Even if the game had been Japan-only let's look at how much it made Gamefreak from physical sales alone.
>13 million USD budget>Switch 1: 872,552 units>872,552 x 46.66 (7,100 yen)=40,713,276.32>Switch 2: 612,905 units>612,905 x 53.02 (8,100 yen)=32,496,223.10If we add the two together we get
>40,713,276.32+32,496,223.10=73,209,499.42Japanese retailer take about 25% of game sales. So that becomes
73,209,499.42-18,302,374.86=54,907,124.56
So 54,907,124.56-13,000,000=41,907,124.56 from Japanese physical alone.
I assume from there it gets split into thirds between Creatures, Game Freak, and Nintendo. I'm not 100% sure on that but assuming it does we have:
41,907,124.56/3=13,969,041.52 from Japanese physical sales only.
There is literally no way for these games to fail.
