What’s your best selling game pre year 15? I’m saying pre 15 just because it is the first half of the game and huge sales early in the game really help out in the long run.Put the stats, the genre, top sales rank, etc. and if you based it on a real game, what was it based on and why?
I will start it off:
Dance Dance Groove (Dance-Casual) E for Everyone
Gameling
Released: Y12, M2
Sales Rank of #1, 9.5 Avg. Rating
8.3 Million in profit, Garage level
This game i based on Dance Dance Revolution, just dumbed down to a handheld. I was hugely surprised by the success that after it went off the market, I said" Well I broke the game, I made enough money for one night" then I saved and quit. On a side note the sequel on the gameling in Year 15 was a flop and I lost 50K
Get out of that garage! Y12M2 is way too late to still be making Pong Seriously though, medium and large games sell better for the same ratings and generate way more fans (which drives future sales). Here are two examples from my last game that hopefully illustrate that point -
Legend of Zelda (Y7 M8 W1) - fantasy-action for young audiences on the gameling, 10.2M profit (9.75 rated). It was my first self-published medium game of that run through (game #18 for that play through).
Flight Simulator (Y13 M11 W2) - airplane simulation for mature on the PC. 33.2M profit (9.25 rated), self published large game.
Damn! My first mega hit came out in year 16, but since you said year 15 my best game was…
Guantanamo Bay: A Prison/Simulation rated M for Mature
PC
Released Year 12, Month 11, Week 4
Sales Rank #1, $7.6 million in profit
1.1 million units sold
14, 906 Fans
Avg Score: 9.75
Fun Fact: I had three games get to Rank #1 in the first 16 years. I never made it back to rank #1 until I put out a game for my own console in year 40.
Game Dev Tycoon (Y14 M5 W4) - Game Dev simulation for mature audiences on the PC, self published large game. 9.75 rated. 3M units sold for 39M profit (new record for me pre-Y15)
Luigi no Stars
Fantasy/RPG
Console: Vena Gear
Target Auidence: Young
Released: Y6, M5 W2
unites sold: 382.6K
Profit: 2.6M
Score: 9.5
Fans: 3248
Top Sales Rank: 1
Pearl: Space Program
Space/Simulator
Console: Vena Gear
Target Auidence: Everyone
Released: Y5, M5 W2
unites sold: 232.7K
Profit: 1.6
Score: 8.25
Fans: 1803
Top Sales Rank: 9
I’m currently at year 15 on my file and haven’t made 1m on a single game sence.
on my other save file
Pinguin Racing II
Racing/Simulator
Console: Super TES
Target Auidence: Everyone
Released: Y7, M6 W1
unites sold: 343.8K
Profit: 2.3M
Score: 9.75
Fans: 3133
Top Sales Rank: 2
I think because I sell such good games before year 10 I have a very hard time after. according to what other’s have said the better you do the harder the raiting system get’s which for this game I think is stupid.
Seriously though, medium and large games sell better for the same ratings and generate way more fans (which drives future sales). Here are two examples from my last game that hopefully illustrate that point -