Sorry Runa, I'm still stuck using my phone. So my response showed up in your comment. Fact is Dev costs are higher then they ever have been. Next generation they will double to triple, a big budget 360/PS3 title can cost up to 50-80 million just to develop throw in an ad campaign and distribution network, online services and software maintenance and a current game like HomeFront can now exceed 100 million dollars. Fact is HomeFront cost 50-mill to develop it was an amazing game and did perform decent. But it did not generate a sufficient profit to keep the studio open. THQ had to can the staff.
Read my blog sometime. Simply put we are paying less for games then almost any point in gaming history. NES games cost 49.99$-59.99$ and if you convert that to modern currency value we were paying nearly 100$ for an NES game made by as few as 5-10 people for as little as a couple thousand dollars.
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
