| makingmusic476 said: From N4G "Talking as part of an in-depth interview published on Gamasutra today, Kojima Productions' Ryan Payton has revealed that there are over 200 developers working to complete Metal Gear Solid 4 for PlayStation 3." That's a hell of a lot of people working on this game! The more devs there = the faster it's finished = the happier I'll be. :D |
With wages, office space, equipment and software assume $100,000 per developer per year ...
This means that MGS4 is costing Konami $20,000,000 per year ...
Depending on how long they have maintained this size of team, and how large the marketing costs will be, their total cost will be in the $40,000,000 to $80,000,000 range ... That means they have to sell 1 to 2 Million games to break even and 2 to 4 Million games to have a healthy profit; all this on a system which hasn't sold 5 Million systems yet ...
