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Kasz216 on 21 April 2009
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NJ5 said:
blackstar said:
NJ5 said:

Lol at the people partying about Yakuza breaking even as if it means that average HD budgets are suddenly lower than explained by tons of companies.

If it broke even it's still a failure, since companies are in business for profits.

 

 

and LOL at the people keep saying "an HD game has to sell a milion or 2 to break even"

That is of course not true, since there are reports of HD games as cheap as $10 million... however the only one I can think of now is Gears of War which already had its engine pre-made and without lícensing costs since Epic made it (plus with work outsourced to cheap Chinese labor).

I guess Sega's statement means that Yakuza 3 cost around the same as Gears of War. I don't really know much about the game so I won't comment.

 

 

As stated... Yakuza 3 did already have a premade engine as well.  Reusing engines i bet will be much more commonplace this gen.

500K shipment i believe.  Which is a good point NJ5.  So they'll need to hope the budget release is just as stimulating as previous.