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snowdog on 17 July 2009
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hanafuda said:
Torillian said:
Shadowblind said:
 

FUCK YEAH! I FOUND THEM! I feel so accomplished

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=78322&page=1

TheSource said:

Normal PS3/360 titles are supposed to cost $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 to make with top titles costing $20,000,000 to $30,000,000.

Supposedly after all the costs are factored in to consideration, the game maker gets $31 for a PS3 title, while a game maker gets $38 for a 360 title.

Most Wii games are supposed to cost $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 to make by comparison. PSP is probably $1,500,000 to $3,500,000, DS is maybe $800,000 to $2,000,000.

Essentially you can be profitable at the following thresholds with an average game, but it varies alot:

DS - 100k

PSP - 125k

Wii - 165k

360 - 200k

PS3 - 242k

 

 

And yet I still can't get people to agree that Valkyria Chronicles made money for Sega.  Sigh.

Thank you for finding it for me <3

Supposed to and probably? Where are the sources to back up those figures? And why would a PSP game cost nearly double what it takes to make a DS game??


Because you don't need a test kit or dev kit to develop and test DS games. I worked in the industry for years in QA and always used retail DSs to test code. PSP dev kits used to be bloody expensive, but Sony have recently decreased the price of dev kits for all of their consoles.