GT5 cost is $60 million: Kazunori Yamauchi

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tedsteriscool said:

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?

He's assuming employees make $100,000 a year in salaries. Which is way too high...hardly anyone makes that much. Engineers are pretty much the only ones who cross the $100k/year mark.

Actually you have to factor more than what employees make.

If a company pays you 80k their real costs including benefits, administration, building and taxes is closer to 100k.

However most QA members make nowhere near 80k, they make 40-50k at best.......( doing QA for games doesn't pay the bills, it never didm that is why you find mostly junior people at those positions).