Call of Duty: World at War (Wii) has sold 1m copies.

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averyblund said:

outlawauron said:

Well, outside of Super Mario Galaxy, we haven't had a big budget that's released that really had great production values.

I'm interested in the costs of The Conduit and MH3. Both should be well over 20 million.

 

MH3 maybe 20 mill. But the Conduit? Are you kidding? They didn't even have a punblisher until recently and I hardly believe that HVS has 20 mill laying around. 10-12 tops, though Sega will certainly spend a good amount on ads. But ads do not equal production cost.

 

$20 million is very unlikely for Conduit. It's dev cycle is only 18 months and a few months ago a developer stated they had about 30 people working on it at the time. I have no doubt that the team was larger at certain points in the dev cycle, but I don't see how it could have cost $20 million.

$20 million probably would come close to paying for the salaries of all 130 High Voltage employees for that 18 month period, but they've had other projects in the works during that period, including lots of WiiWare and licensed work.

Your $10 million estimate seems far more plausible.