NJ5 on 30 November 2009
| Yakuzaice said: May is pretty late in the cycle. Less than six months before the game released. Big games to to go gold around a month before they release, so that is only ~5 months most likely with 450 employees. |
That is the best possible case, of course. In reality I have a hard time believing that there were much fewer than 450 people working on the game before that.
Also, they did say that the team was three times as big as the team that made Assassin's Creed 1:
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/513/assassins-creed-ii-triples-size-of-dev-team
So about triple the costs of an already expensive project... and probably with more advertising.
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