SEGA: Its not game over for Mature Wii Titles

[theRepublic]

Procrastinato said:

Stranglehold cost in the "high 20s", as quoted by the producers in Game Development magazine, in their postmortem.

Stranglehold would have cost ~$7M on the Wii, then?  Why wasn't it, again?

 

I recall several shooters, from their post-mortems in Game Developer, claiming costs in the $15-20M range.  Where are all the cheap $4-5M Wii shooters?  Did The Conduit cost that much?  Seriously guys, I am thinking.  I'm asking you to, before posting hearsay.  Lets see some data, for games which are truly comparable in quality.

Yes, The Conduit did cost about that much.  From interviews with HVS, we have a decent idea of how many people were working on the game, and when it started development.

30 employees x $100,000 cost of employees x 1.75 years in development = $5.25 million