| GooseGaws said: Shenmue cost $70 million; $41 million, that's nothin'. :) |
Wrong. The budget for Shenmue 1, 2 and 3 came to $70 million. I think we can say it ended up at about $30 million for 1 and 2, and then $10 million for shenmue 3 before it got canned.
Anywho, my take on things is about $1 million - $8 million on the wii, $15 million - $20 million on the 360 and $20 million + on the PS3.
On the Wii though it can be as high or low as they want really, something like Carnival games would be luck to cost $1 million but games like RE:UC and Final fantasy CC TCB could probably exceed $8 million.
I'm not sure what Nintendo's costs are though. You'd think with the games size and depth they'd be extremely expensive to make, but then I always think how Nintendo made the hardware, have been developing on the archetecture for 7 years+ and have so much experience they must be able to keep the costs down more then anyone.
To help people, two Namco PS3 launch games (Ridge Racer 7 and something else) needed 500k to break even. That was an offiicial statement, google it if you want.
