Killergran on 28 May 2009
| Max King of the Wild said: now to respond to the doesnt make sense part. the way i see it GTA5 represents the next GTA and not the actual 5th game. TT could have went to Sony asking Sony to finance GTA4. Sony could have refused. TT then could have entered into another agreement. one to of let TT use the money earned from 4 to make the exclusive game they owe Sony. All the while getting a loan from MS to be able to finish 4 up and giving them DLC in return |
That wouldn't make much sense either. The game cost about $100 million to make, I think is a well documented figure. And they made (again, my own approximation) $175 million on the 360 version alone (plus $125m on the PS3 version).
They got $50 million for the DLC, which by your argumentation would mean that they borrowed $50 million from sony in return for losing approx. $175 of revenue from a future 360 version. You're still lacking $125 million for that move to make any sense.
What would make sense in that case would be to borrow the money from a bank. At 10% interest, over 3 years of developement time, that would be a cost of $20m (assuming they needed 50m). Much better than $125m.
Apology accepted by the way. :)
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