So what you (Mars) are saying is that I'm making all this up just to make MGS4 look bad, to argue that there must be a port? Holy shit that is hillarious!
The numbers range I mentioned goes for european and american developers. Given that the cost of living in Japan is well within the range of europe and america it's not far fetched to think that salaries will be similiar.
When someone mentions 200 developers, I assume they mean 200 developers. The cleaning lady, coffee boy and parking guy aren't developers. If those were included they would've said employees.







