Wii game budgets 1/4 of HD budgets according to EA

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outlawauron said:

Groucho said:

Soriku said:

Munkeh said from a mag he read, LBP costed 2-3 mil not 5-6. And that SMG figure sounds too off.

I've also heard from several sources that SMG cost 16-17 mil USD.  Super Mario 64 supposedly cost 30 mil USD.  Nintendo, unlike the 3rd party publishers, doesn't skimp on supporting their own console.

2-3M for LBP seems low though.

 

 

Oh noes. Wii game can't possibly cost more than any HD games!

 

And how much effort and time went in to Mario Galaxy? A ton. You can't compare the coist of Mario galaxy with the cost of an average HD game. Mario galaxy is one of the best games on the wii. If you were going to be fair with the comparison it should be compared with one of the best games on the HD consoles, so more like GTA IV and MGS, which cost significantly more than 17 million.