You do know that the majority of hardcore gamers are around OANST and Nate's age, right?

This means I'm wrong then, doesn't it?

I wonder how many 14 year olds will pick this up.

I hope the online is old school enough to scare most of them off.

Are you kidding? DNF has got scantily clad women and swearing... they'll be all over it like a rash.

It'll be one of those games where the shopkeeper will always ask for I.D.

I've never really played a Duke Nukem game, and this looks mad crazy fun so I'm looking forward to it.

Because to make a profit, you'll first have to break even and I don't see that happening with the insane developing costs this game swallowed over the years.

Furthermore I don't think there's much of a fanbase for this game. Had it not been the subject of constant jokes and had it not been popular for the sole reason of not existing, people could probably care less about this game.

DNF is going to be the typical sort of game no-one really wants to spend any money on, at least not full retail price, but does want to see how it turned out. So I predict that the illegal download numbers are going to exceed the actual sales, and not real profit of any kind is going to be made.

Hasn't the publisher changed at one point? So the publisher's costs would only be the development from that day forward?

I suspect most of the cost of the date to this point has been written off.

Exactly. Learn2economics.

Im pretty sure Take Two has been funding it for a long fucking time, so Havoc's point still stands.

Nate, I only asked that because they would be the same age as the game's dev time.

From what I understand Take Two purchased the original publishing rights to Duke Nukem for 12 million dollars at the time and later added 2 million in developing costs. That's 14 million dollars to be cleared before any profit at all can be made.

I've already seen stores where you can preorder the game for around 44 dollars or so, which would mean they'd have to sell at least 310.000 copies of the game to break even. For a game franchise this old, with most fans having moved on and current younger gamers not having a clue what Duke Nukem is, I don't think they are going to make that number in retail/legal sales. It's not a highly anticipated title like CoD, it won't have people sleeping infront of gamestores and the only thing game magazines have to say about is: "Hey guess what, DNF is actually being released. You can go get it if you still care."

I think Take Two is going to be having a party if they manage to break even. Judging the current situation they are merely doing damage control at the moment.

I have no doubt in my mind that it can reach 310,000 copies sold. They're gonna be marketing the shit out of this one.

It will easily sell 2 million.

I won't hold my breath.

How? TV ads after midnight? :P

It's Duke, he's a walking meme.

Viral videos and lots of them.

Not to mention every person i know that was a fan of Duke, is going to buy this day one. You can quote me on that two million prediction.

What part of that trailer couldn't be promoted on prime-time TV?

Also, are you seriously suggesting that R-rated games and movies never receive any marketting effort?

Well not on TV, then again I don't watch much American TV so I wouldn't really know. All I know is that, between all the casual family shit like Wii jumping games and Kinect fitness stuff, over here there are extremely little TV commercials for games. Last one I saw was for Black Ops and before that was GTA4.

Marketing on the internet is kind of redundant for DNF, given it's already wildly popular around these parts. It's the offline crowd you need to get to, and even if it's censored the anti-gaming lobby is going to have a field day with DNF's trailer, let alone the game.

No they're not. DNF is silly fun with tits and explosions. There isn't a hint at realism. Only the tardiest of tarded Censor commissioners would attempt to blockade its release.

And really, how is it any worse than, say, Black Ops? (Which was a terrible game) Black Ops had a shitload of gravelly voiced dudes slitting throats. This is some sunglasses wearing fuck with a flattop mumbling around some strippers.

But... there's tits. God forbid young children see digital breasts and get sent straight to hell by our beloved father. :|

You seriously have no concept of censorship over here. Hell, Saints Row 2 let you walk around as a nude woman for virtually the entire game and got away with it. (NOT IN GERMANY THOUGH).
And regardless of censorship or what-have-you, Parents will still buy it for their kids because dumb kids will shit their pants over DOUK.

Deal with it, nerd.

Balls of Steel -edition!

Sadly, it doesn't come with steel balls. But the other stuff looks fucking awesome.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/i...e_nf_balls.jpg

Douk poker chips

Douk greeting cards

Douk playing cards

Douk bust of Douk

Douk dice

A Douk certification of some sort.

and a billion books and crap that everyone will claim to read but won't.

Well I just can't wait!

Is that a DVD at the back!?

Negative-Nancy has sand in her vagina.

Comic book I believe.

Duke Nukem is like Alex Wesker if he wasn't a pussy.

I'd laugh if they built up all this hype again only to scrap it indefinitely.