What's the cost of making a video game?

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DirtyP2002 said:

c0rd said:

Your Wii number may be on the mark, but the HD titles are way too much. Here's a graph from Factor 5, should give you an idea:

Some really high budget games will go far above, like GTA4 or MGS4, but those don't really count - hell, Shenmue cost something like $50mil to make, and that was on the Dreamcast.

 

 Am I the only one, who doesn't get this? Okay the average budget is given in ( ). But what is the meaning of the numbers on the left, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120?

Would be nice, if somebody could explain it to me.

Read the title of the graph, lol.