| TheSource said: DQIX has a couple thing in its favor: 1) Virtually no other games release this week 2) Its a bit cheaper than most DQ games (~$60 vs ~$80) 3) One save slot. If multiple people in a household want to play it, they'll buy multiple copies. 4) DS has a userbase of 27m in Japan, which is only 10% lower than the worldwide 360 base, and over 20% higher than the world PS3 base. Hell its more than half as big as the world Wii base. 5) I doubt this game cost more than $5m to make (which is actually quite high for a DS game). If Square-Enix gets $25/copy or something they can make over $100m profit on this game in Japan which can pay for huge development costs of prettier games releasing on smaller bases. |
I think you are being way too conservative here.
I would think that just the developer salaries alone would be higher than $5 million for the 3 and a half year development time.
