First a recap of my last reports to catch this thread up to date:
Action 53 vol 1, Limited edition clear 50 copies full report
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total cost/game $11.758096
games made 50
TOTAL EXP: $587.9048
Sales:
14 contributor carts sold @ $35ea
33 general public carts sold @ $40ea
$35*14 + $40*33 - $71.13 paypal fees = $1738.87 total sales for run 1.
Profit:
$1738.87 (sales) - $587.91 (carts) = $1150.96
2011 Prize money
Some prizes were paid by koitsu out of pocket so we'll pay him back and payout remaining prizes
$100 + $50 + $25 = $175
Profit - 2011 prizes:
=$975.96
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Streemerz bundle LE 50 copies +$1150.96
2011 compo prizes -$175
Streemerz bundle RE 100 copies +$2525
-RE cart cost came to $14.75, copies sold for $40, so $25.25 was earned per cart
2014 compo cash prizes -$850
2014 SNES mice prizes -$20.99
TOTAL REMAINING BALANCE: $2629.97
First let's subtract cost of printed materials from our balance:
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Prior balance: $2629.97
Traditional boxes 300 printed @ $1.70ea = -$510
Front cartridge labels 500 printed @ $0.181ea = -$90.50
Balance after printed material expenses: $2029.47
Sale price is $40 for loose cart, $48 for CIB. Since the printed material cost is already spent, we don't need to amortize their cost. Because of that, loose cart and CIB have same cartidge expense per cart. Earnings per loose cart remains $25.25ea, and CIB is $33.25ea, only other item left to subtract is paypal fees.
In total 18 Limited editions were made for contributors:
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balance after printed materials: $2029.47
LE copies expense: $14.75 * 18 = -$265.50
remaining balance prior to vol 2 sales: $1763.97
2015 total: 55 copies, 11 loose cart, 44 CIB
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balance prior to vol 2 sales: $1763.97
2015 sales:
Loose cart: $25.25 * 11 = +$277.75
CIB: $33.25 * 44 = +$1463
2015 paypal fees = -$109.55
2015 year end balance $3395.17
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2015 year end balance $3395.17
2016 YTD sales:
Loose cart: $25.25 * 3 = +$75.75
CIB: $33.25 * 5 = +$166.25
2015 paypal fees = -$16.11
Current nesdev balance: $3621.06
Phew! So lets analyze some things now that we're done with that.
So far we've sold 63 copies which doesn't seem like a whole lot compared to the 150 vol 1 sold in about the same 7 month period. One thing to keep in mind though is that the 150 of vol 1 included the 14 contributor carts. If we include the 18 contributor carts that brings total vol2 carts to 81. Some other possible reasons behind the number difference is that vol1 had a LE auction which sold 33 copies in a matter of minutes. There were a number of questionings as to why we didn't do that again especially from collectors over at NA. So perhaps the lack of auction and attention gained from that, we had fewer sales with vol2..?
Something else to look at is how we did CIB option this time around, when we didn't last time. CIB's had total sale value of $8ea * 49CIBs = $392 income from CIBs. We spent $510 on traditional boxes, so we still haven't recovered our expenses on the traditional box cost. But as you can see the CIB is a popular choice. Once we sell another 15 CIBs we'll have fully recovered the cost of the boxes.
In all, we had $3500.96 after the end of vol1 sales around year end 2013. We then had the 2014 compo, and released vol2 leaving us with a balance of $3621.06. So to date, we've only earned about $120 from the second compo. So the good news is we're effectively sustainable at this rate. Bummer is one might have hoped we would have had better growth. But we're not a corporation in the business of making money. We're in the business of making homebrew games, so there's nothing really wrong with what we've done. Safe to say we've learned some things, and now armed with more data we can decide what aligns with our goals of the compo and cart sales.
I'm 100% open to input and ideas of how we spend this money as a community. It's not my money, I'm merely the curator. I'd like to see it go towards things like hosting fees for everyone's benefit. I reached out to WhoaMan about this today to see if he can share some of his expenses. I saw NintendoAge was running a fund raiser for hosting fees. Not sure what everyone else thinks, but I think we should pitch in as they are a part of the competition. Have a hard time coming up with an amount. Perhaps if we can get an idea of WhoaMan's hosting expenses over the past couple years we could donate a matching amount to both nesdev and NA hosting.
I have lots of ideas of things for upcoming compos and action53 volumes, but I'll put those in their respective threads. Trying to keep this thread devoted to discussions that are specifically about finances. I'm curious to hear what people think about our financial situation here, it's been mostly crickets in the past when I've tried to get feedback on the matter.