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| Ishmael 680th Post
 
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|  "Enter the Really Expensive Matrix"
, posted Tue 27 May 11:43
Pulled from imdb.com:
Atari brand's Enter the Matrix videogame, produced by Lyon, France-based Infogrames, was snatched up by more than one million buyers during its first week in release in the U.S. and Europe, but analysts said that it was by no means clear whether the title will be profitable for the financially troubled company. According to the Wall Street Journal, the game, which employs characters and plot elements from The Matrix Reloaded, cost $20 million to make and $60 million for licensing rights and other expenses, making it one of the most expensive videogame titles ever. Nevertheless, the newspaper quoted analysts as noting that the game has not received the kind of enthusiastic response from reviewers that would ensure blockbuster sales.
I knew that nobody was giving away licensing rights but I didn't realize that a company could blow around $50 million on securing permission. Small wonder the Matrix game has been getting so much ad space, they need to sell a huge number of copies in order to even break even. So does the EtM play like an eighty million dollar game?
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| TheBeast 1443th Post
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| "Re(1):Enter the Really Expensive Matrix" , posted Wed 28 May 00:59
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Pulled from imdb.com:
Atari brand's Enter the Matrix videogame, produced by Lyon, France-based Infogrames, was snatched up by more than one million buyers during its first week in release in the U.S. and Europe, but analysts said that it was by no means clear whether the title will be profitable for the financially troubled company. According to the Wall Street Journal, the game, which employs characters and plot elements from The Matrix Reloaded, cost $20 million to make and $60 million for licensing rights and other expenses, making it one of the most expensive videogame titles ever. Nevertheless, the newspaper quoted analysts as noting that the game has not received the kind of enthusiastic response from reviewers that would ensure blockbuster sales.
I knew that nobody was giving away licensing rights but I didn't realize that a company could blow around $50 million on securing permission. Small wonder the Matrix game has been getting so much ad space, they need to sell a huge number of copies in order to even break even. So does the EtM play like an eighty million dollar game?
$60 million licensing rights? Didn't those rights belong to Warner Brothers? Damn, they sure know how to squeeze all the milk of a cash cow.
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