Heavenly Sword sold about 1.5m but devs didn't break even

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Cypher1980 said:

Christhor said:
I have to ask, WTH was the team doing? They had 2 years development time (IIRC) and a seemingly HUGE budget, yet they only managed to make a 5 hour long game? What the hell??

It was early days with the PS3. The Dev kit was said to be near useless by those brave enough to criticise SONY (get caught and your dev kits are taken away)

So they had two years to

1. Build an engine on a totally unfamiliar platform

2. Create a game using that engine.

I think two years for both is OK.

It was well more than two years.  As has been mentioned before in this thread.  Ninja Theory sunk a decent amount of time and money into an Xbox version of the game before switching to next-gen consoles and landing a deal with Sony.