The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, two major titles that were released during this time, both performed exceptionally
As of August 6, 2023, The Super Mario Bros. Movie has grossed $574.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $779.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.355 billion.
at 69.99 a game, would mean the total volume sold is roughly $1.295 billion, 60 million less than the Super Mario Movie.
I’m not certain if the movie gross is the same calculation though.It seems that the calculation is fair But data for Tears of the Kingdom is about a month older so that it seems possible it passed The Super Mario Movie by now.
With those numbers I’d guess TotK was more profitable. Movies have a huge amount of production costs and some of those groups take percentages of total revenue and/or profit. Especially considering TotK was a first party game, so it had even fewer parties invested, it was probably higher margins.
there is an estimation i saw about the development cost of Breath of the Wild, at somewhere between 80 and 120 million USD. Breath of the Wild was 4 years in Development, Tears of the Kingdom spent 6 years in Development.
above 120 million for Tears of the Kingdom doesn’t seem unreasonable.
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at 69.99 a game, would mean the total volume sold is roughly $1.295 billion, 60 million less than the Super Mario Movie.
I’m not certain if the movie gross is the same calculation though.It seems that the calculation is fair But data for Tears of the Kingdom is about a month older so that it seems possible it passed The Super Mario Movie by now.With those numbers I’d guess TotK was more profitable. Movies have a huge amount of production costs and some of those groups take percentages of total revenue and/or profit. Especially considering TotK was a first party game, so it had even fewer parties invested, it was probably higher margins.
there is an estimation i saw about the development cost of Breath of the Wild, at somewhere between 80 and 120 million USD. Breath of the Wild was 4 years in Development, Tears of the Kingdom spent 6 years in Development.
above 120 million for Tears of the Kingdom doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Mario Movie was 100 Million.
Anyway, both are stupidly profitable for Nintendo