Capcom disscus the Madworld sales

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UncleFetus said:

theRepublic said:

noname2200 said:

outlawauron said:

noname2200 said:

Most expensive third-party game, then. My apologies for the omission. Or do you have information indicating otherwise?

I would suppose it's the most expensive third party game. I expect the Conduit and MadWorld to be higher.

I'm not so sure. The Conduit has a chance, since it involved creating an engine from scratch, but I doubt High Voltage has the resources to fully fund such an expensive game (and remember that the title is basically self-funded).On the other hand, they've been putting a lot of resources into it for the past two years, so...

Madworld is almost certainly not more expensive: considering the fact that Platinum Games is a start-up that's currently funding at least four games, I don't think they could afford to make their Wii game too pricey. More importantly, it'd be incredibly foolish to believe that the sequel to mega-bomba God Hand will do gangbusters, so if they DID spend that much money on development, they deserve to go out of business (again).

Plus, from what I've heard and read, they cut quite a few corners with the game. Shoot, the PAL version runs at 50 MHz. Games haven't done that since the PS1 era. None of this is to say that it was a dirt-cheap game, mind you, but I'm willing to bet the farm that it doesn't come close to Red Steel's eight-figure budget.

 

I doubt The Conduit will be that expensive.  Development started in October 2007 and it is approx. a 30 man team.  That's a fairly small team and less than two years of development time.

I've heard the same about Madworld.  It was definitely developed on a small budget.

I don't know much about development but 2 years sounds like a long time. There must have been delay on the project. If it was an epic RPG I would understand that amount of time but an FPS on the Wii shouldn't take that long.

 

It's likely an appreciable amount. HVS said it took them years to save up to make a game on their own terms.