Article: What's Killing the Video Game Industry?

[theRepublic]

noname2200 said:

theRepublic said:

Just out of curiosity, what are your problems with the article?

By the way, here is his email: [e-mail]

Cool, thanks. I'll send off that e-mail soon. Hope he replies.

Some of the numbers he's using seem fishy, or at least like they're only part of the story. The prime example that came to mind was the one about Activision. The figure quoted isn't incorrect, but it neglects to mention that much of it is due to their shifting the money from that timespan throughout the rest of this year (i.e. each month gets 1/12 of that, rather than having it all accrue in one month). The $10k "man-month" figure is also something I'd never heard before. That doesn't mean it's wrong, mind you, but it's another part that I'd like some clarification on.

That type of thing.

I have recently heard that $100k per man per year was a decent figure to use to estimate the costs of a game.  That would be $8,333 per man per month.  Not so far off.