Japan: Video Game Development Costs

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So it is in 10.000s of dollars then.

The DS may cost less to develop for than it did to develop for GBA. Insane.

What is interesting here, is that you can see that

 

Ps2 costs ~ 1.5 times as much pr game as GC, perhaps a little more.

XB is almost equal to GC

 

360 costs ~ 2 times to develop for over Wii.

Ps3 costs ~ 1.5 times as much as 360.

 

Also, the average Wii game in 2007 cost 10M dollars to make. If we consider that they get in 15 dollars a game, that means 666K is needed. As Nintendo released 10 titles, they probably make the average a lot higher. Overall, the total for Wii should go heavily in plus.

 

The average of those 7 Ps3 games is 30 million, crazy. No doubt, all those titles lost money. Most Sony titles aren't in there, as Motorstorm and Resistance. The only of those 7 that didn't lose a lot of money is GT5:Prologue, and I'll guess that went about even.

 

The cheap Wii games need just around 130K sold to go even. I think a lot of Wii games should fit in here. And of course, some DS games are nutty cheap.

 

Very interesting chart.