(14/02/2012 08:04 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  Should generally be able to make money regardless of how poor the sales.  Because the game is already made, and all they need to do is translate some text, do some dubbing (occasionally not even that), and some very minimal testing.

Plus sales/marketing, cover art, royalties to Sony and whatever else (eg MP3 royalties if they used that), logistics in sourcing UMDs/boxes, legal/contract fees, bureaucratic issues, support etc.
So quite a bit more, though I'm with you that even with bad sales, it should make enough since, in large, the software, art, audio and testing have largely already been done (I'm assuming this is the most significant cost in making such a game, but I could be wrong).

But I'm also a bit critical of it being for "pride".  Companies don't exist to enlarge their e-peen, and generally would seek out profit opportunities when they can, especially in the case where they have a monopoly on the title.