GT5 cost is $60 million: Kazunori Yamauchi

[Slimebeast]

Carl2291 said:

Slimebeast said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Turismo_5

"In an April 2008 interview, game creator Kazunori Yamauchi revealed that 150 people had worked on Gran Turismo 5 for three years"

If release is in March 2010, that's another 2 years. So total dev time is 5 years with 150 people.

150 people x $100.000 = 15 mill per year

5 x 15 = 75 mill

Fair enough. Now another question...

Where are you getting your $100,000 figure from?

It's the common number, used by the majority on VGC, and mostly it's source is based on industry sources, for example the Gears budget presentation at GDC or something, where it was apparent that on average, one team member is associated with a $100,000 cost.