| Ping_ii said: Not only did GT5 had longer dev time it also has truck load of content implemented to it!!! who in the world actually belives KZ2 cost even romotely close to GT5? BTW if were talking simply longer dev time = huge cost then I feel sorry for red dead, alan,starcraft as these game took their sweet time. |
I didn't claim it cost as much as GT5, however, you're off about GT5 only costing $60m. If you look that up, GT5 was reported as having cost $60m to develop in Nov of '09, when it was expected to release soon. It's been almost another year since then, so the number would have climbed accordingly. how long was it in development? 5 years by that point? so it's budget has probably grown another $10-12m.
As for longer dev time = huge cost, that is absolutely a fact, if it's a large dev team. Sometimes games take a while because a small team does all the work - that can keep costs in check. But when you have a massive team (like GG's became), then budgets swell accordingly. You don't have to feel bad for SC2, but blizzard has reported that it's development cost OVER $100m. The result of a large development team working for a long time.
