c/games · by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works · 2y

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and the Super Mario Bros. Movie drove Nintendo to a record-breaking quarter | Geek Centrals

https://geekcentrals.com/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-and-the-super-mario-bros-movie-drove-nintendo-to-a-record-breaking-quarter/

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avatar@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

But which did better, and by how much over the other?

TheYang@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.
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[Tears of the Kingdom] sold more than 10 million copies in its first three days of release, and had sold over 18.5 million copies by June 2023.
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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.

makeshiftreaper@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

TheYang@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

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