I believe BG3 will end up being one of the costliest ever RPGs, maybe even the most costly. As I've said many times previously, they'll need a *minimum* of 10 million in sales just to be considered having done okay, and a whole lot more beyond that to be judged truly successful. Several gaming journos are now beginning to write that indeed BG3 should be properly compared with games like Elden Ring, CP2077, and Zelda (which is again something I've long argued), and that means sales numbers WELL beyond 10 million.
How did you figure that? Swen said multiple times during interviews, that EA sales alone allowed them to finance BG3. So, even 10 million copies will be a great success. They are already profiting on the sales.
