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

[NJ5]

@Groucho: Wait where did I say the low end is $20m? If I ever said that it was either long ago or a brainfart, since I've known for a while that Gears of War cost $10 million. This doesn't include the engine development costs of course, and they outsourced some work to China:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2006/10/5516.ars

We should also take into acount that Gears of War has much less content than Super Mario Galaxy. SMG is a huge game which doesn't use any online mode to extend its value.