Next-Gen Development Costs

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Kwaad said: I sure hope that Spiderman3 for the PS3 didnt cost more than spiderman2 for PS2... cause it sure dont look much better. EDIT: This is in refrence to the game costs how much you put in it. You put 50mil in it... it will be a great, beautiful game. You put 100,000 in it... it will... not. On any console.

I choose spiderman because it was the only series I could think of which would have (practically) the same environment in 3 generations ... The unfortunate fact is that as you approach photo-realism in a game you also need to approach a level of realistic variation in the environment. If you reused as much content on a PS3 game as you did in a N64 (or even PS2) game you would end up being destroyed in reviews and having a game which sold poorly.