(30/09/2010 08:51 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  I don't think your reasoning quite stacks up.  There's probably a huge market for this type of stuff in Japan, which would explain how large the hentai industry over there is.  If it's hard to profit, then there won't be many of it.
Generally, these types of things are fairly price inelastic (like drugs) so you can make a fair bit of profit per sale.

In Japan, yeah, this stuff does sell.  Usually around the 10,000-100,000 range, though the big titles can go over that.  Compare to video games which is usually in like a 100,000 to 1,000,000 range, with the big titles capable of getting multiple million.  But then again, eroge is also has much much lower production costs than your typical FPS shooter.

Outside Japan, MangaGamer doubts they can even get 2000 sales.

(This post was last modified: 30/09/2010 09:19 PM by Assassinator.)