Wii game budgets 1/4 of HD budgets according to EA

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Kasz216 said:

kylohk said:
Wow, so graphics do make the budget.

Well... yeah Namco even once said HD graphics costed them like... 8 million dollars.

For Ridge Racer.

 

Just in case someone missed this gem from Polyphony Digital, here it goes:

"In GT and GT2, both for PS1, a designer spent a day to model a car. In GT3 and GT4, for PS2, the same worker spent a month modeling the same car due to the increased amount of polygons. In GT5 for PS3, they require six months to do the same job," Yamauchi explained.

It's hard to imagine programming costs rising that much... Yeah making all those nice graphical effects and shaders also takes more programming effort, but it wouldn't be necessary to have 100 (or even 10) times as many programmers. That would make projects impossible to manage, whereas artists can work in parallel much better.