Square Enix: Final Fantasy 13 needs 10 times the success of average titles.

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Kasz216 said:

Squilliam said:
It depends. If they use the Wii as the baseline they would only need to sell 100,000 copies.

That implies that development costs are well over $100,000,000! Say hello to most expensive game of all times?

Well to be fair it seems like he was just balparking a guess... and one based on expectations and not cost or profitability.

I assume a game like Final Fantasy 13 is expected to do more then break even and it's expectations would be to bring in megacash.

 

I don't know... I'm going to read a review before I buy a FF game instead of impulsively buying a collectar's edision of FFXII (I don't think it was absolutely, god awfully horrible, and that it wasn't worth $50. I just felt a bit ripped off and decieved.)