| tombi123 said: @happysqurriel you are still using USA money and prices and wages and costs instead of Japanese costs, give me some evidence of what a Japanese developer costs a company a year and I will believe you. Until then I will not believe your 40M-80M $ production cost for MGS4. |
Just a few questions ...
Why do you believe that a developer in Japan (one of the most advanced and expensive places in the world) would make drastically less than a developer in North America or Europe? Does being Japaneese suddenly mean that you're willing to live on Kraft Dinner (or whatever) in order to develop videogames?
If you read my initial post you'll see that I included marketing costs into the equation ... Do you think marketing on an international scale is inexpensive? Does Konami have a special deal with Fox to get TV spots at 10% the cost for every other company?
$80 Million (all things considered) is not unrealistic why can't Sony fans accept this?
Certainly, Konami will probably not be holding all of the costs and may gain a larger portion of the revenues than most developers (in order to gain exclusivity) but it is still a large sum of money to gamble on such a small userbase.
