| ElRhodeo said: I'm not sure that a game like this is necessarily that cheap to develop. In the end, what makes a game expensive is probably the number of developers and the time they need, right? So the number of devs for Zack&Wiki may have been relatively small, but they must have spent a lot of time on this one. Same for SMG: People always assume that it cost only a fraction of a typical HD FPS. I'm not so sure about that - I mean, the team working on SMG was huge, and they worked maybe 5 years on this game! |
It was that cheap to develop. Capcom meant it as a no-name budget game. Then some gaming sites caught on, thought it was awesome, and hyped it to all hell as some sort of potential sleeper-hit. You can see that in the repetitive textures, simplistic poly count, near-complete lack of voice acting, and the fact that the game is fairly short.
I doubt Capcom meant it to do better than 100k or so. The fact that it'll probably break 200k at some point means that Capcom made a modest profit for little work. And a sequel means that they can just reuse a bunch of models and textures from the first game, for even less of a development cost.
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