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

[LordTheNightKnight]

Squilliam said:

NJ5 said:
@Squilliam: I know what you meant. I was under the impression that the known development costs jibed pretty well with the 100k/dev/year figure. That's why I was making that assumption.

We know that those often quoted dev costs don't include advertising, but I did think they included all dev-related expenses (including third party tools etc).

It depends on whos doing the talking.

If you ask a publisher how much it costs to bring a Wii game to the market they may say "$15M"

If you ask a developer how much it costs to make a Wii game they may say "$8M"

Now they could be both talking about the same game and yet both are correct.

When a developer is quoted he'd be talking about the total expense of making a game so thats pretty much every cost up until the point a gold disk is created. However publishing costs are a significant expense and should not be underestimated.

When we aren't given a development cost straight up, its possible to estimate it based from head count @100k each plus a little extra to cover incidental expenses and third party companies/technologies contracted in.

 

 

And in the first sentence of the OP, it says that it's the boss of EA, which is most certainly a publisher.