FF13 has ALREADY made a Profit?! (Calculations INSIDE)!

[jammy2211]

darthdevidem01 said:

jammy2211 said:

A random google search brought up these costs for FF games - although I've no idea where their source is:

In Dollars:

FFVII : 26 million
FFVIII : 30 million
FFIX : 38 million
FFX : 40 million
FFXI : 12 million

Those are total costs including marketing.

 It's an old forum thread so FFXII wasn't out yet, although I'm sure I read it has the same as FFX roughly.

 So I'd guess FFXIII is getting on to somewhere in line with $60-$70 million total costs, with marketing and such like. It has a higher retail price then previous FF's to justify the extra investment.

Where I got figures from: http://forum.beyond3d.com/archive/index.php/t-2832.html 

 It's amazing how much they spent on the PS1 games imo.

So I just doubled the FF10 number to get 80 Million for FF13

why the f*** did FF9 cost that much!

You added marketing to :/. I'd say FFXIII, based off previous games, is at the upper maximum of $70 million including all marketing budgets worldwide. I'd be amazed if it went any higher, but I doubt we'll ever really know for sure.

 FFIX figure is rediculous too, probably just went overboard on the marketing or something.