Game development costs: Reggie says...

[rocketpig]

fkusumot said:

rocketpig said:

elnino334 said:
Lost planet was up there with something like 20 million on marketing alone. Other than that I assume MGS4 with 200 plus devs and Killzone 2 may be close if not beyond that.

But didn't Capcom state they only needed to sell ~750k copies of the game to break even? Something about Reggie's numbers just isn't computing with me...

 Did Capcom say that?

Here's the best I could find quickly:

 http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/01/13/lost-planet-ships-1-million/

"Capcom was hoping to sell 740,000 units for them to consider Lost Planet a success, so they must be smiling ear to ear with these sales numbers."

Considering that the site is saying the exact thing I remember Capcom saying about a year ago, it's probably pretty accurate.