Over 200 devs working on MGS4...

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Mars said:

HappySqurriel said:

Estimated Wage: $50,000 per year (let's assume they're all junior and poorly paid)
Benefits : $15,000 per year
Office Space: $15 per square foot per month by 50 square feet (crappy office building, tiny cubical, no hallways or washrooms); $750 per month or $9,000 per year
Computer: $1000 per year (in hardware and OS)
Software: $5,000 per year

So if I lowball every number I come to $80,000 per year per developer ...

 

So now its speculation as fact.

i'll start you of, ¥4,712 Japans minimum wage thats $40

And healthcare services are provided by national and local governments.

Developers are not paid minimum wage. Ever. 

In Japan healthcare services are provided by the government, but they come out of payroll taxes, just like in any other country with socialized medicine. Those taxes don't pay themselves: A good chunk is paid by the employer. It's hard to give you hard figures for Japan with my limited japanese though. In Spain, to give you an xample of a place with socialized medicine, the employer pays 23.6% of the employee's salary, and the employee pays 4.7% (http://www.seg-social.es/inicio/?MIval=cw_usr_view_Folder&LANG=1&ID=36537) A place with crummy social security like the US takes 6.2% divided evenly between employee and employer. But then, in the US there's the ugly insurance and 401K matching costs, that can be 20% of the employee salary together. 15K is a very low estimate.

Kid, we are adults talking real numbers here. Please try to argue a little better.