Slimebeast on 08 February 2009
| ShadowSoldier said: Actually Games like Uncharted cost 20M to make Killzone 2 costs only 25M to make but they have a 40M budget for Advertisement and Etc Gears 1 and 2 cost about 10M to make and thats because Epic has made a shitload this gen from the Unreal engine Halo cost 30M but had a huge cost for advertisement and GTA cost 100M |
Yes, Uncharted $20M and Gears $10M, excluding marketing.
I doubt Killzone 2 only cost only $25 mill though. Doesn't Guerilla have like a +100 people development team? And they've worked on the game for over 4 years. So it should be 400 man years put into Killzone 2, which equals $40 million.
You also said only 500,000 copies is needed for a game to break even. That might be true for HD games on average (if included not just your Call of Duty's but also your Two Worlds and Hour of Victory's) but it sure as hell ain't true for Sony published games because they cost a lot more to make.
