Chrizum on 20 January 2009
| Max King of the Wild said: Chrizum - you are way over exaggerating on break even mark. The budget is rumored at 30million with surfergirl (lol) putting out a rumor that thre was a major malfunction with the game (or management) that made the game cost twice as much. 60 million (which I really doubt) for less than 3 years of development time and 125 employees anything over 40 million is unbelievable to me. 40million divide by 40 equals 1 million to break even. (yes sony will get 40 dollars as manufacturer, publisher, and developer) then its up to sony on how much of that they'll want to use to advertise. |
40 million may be the development budget, but you're forgetting advertizing costs. Sony has made it clear they really want to push this title, and the bundles prove that.
With advertizing, the game may cost close to 50 million in total, and 40 dollars is too much, it will probably be closer to 35 dollars per game. This translates into 1.4m - 1.5 million to break even. Granted, I was a little high with my 2 million, but my point still stands.
