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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Wii game budgets 1/4 of HD budgets according to EA

NJ5 on 06 February 2009
Sullla said:
Groucho said:

3-4M for the Conduit? You realize that 100K/employee/year is the standard, right? 15-20 employees for 2 years then on the Conduit? And of course they get their motion capture, etc. for free, right? Mocap studios love giving time for free.

Lets use GTA4 again as an example, while we're at it. Most of that $100M... voice acting, actor mocap, licensing. If you can't deduce it on your own, those expenses have nothing to do with platform-specific development, per se, and everything to do with ambition. GTA4 on the Wii probably would have cost $85-90M, at the least, given the same grade of resources.

I enjoyed this little blurb. No offense to Groucho, but this is simply preposterous.


Yeah let's all ignore that that simply wouldn't happen even if it's possible.

 



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