| Bodhesatva said: This is a classic debating tactic. First, you insist that your "opponent" has claimed some ridiculously high (or low) statistic. Then, you show that the actual value of that statistic is lower than the ridiculous claim. "Some people claim that over a million people die each year due to gun related violence in the US. In reality, it's less than two hundred thousand!"
This makes it look your figure is actually low, when it's only low in comparison to some ridiculously high figure. I don't think any reasonable person here thought that games were averaging 40 million, just that some of the higher end games did cost that much (such as Killzone2 and MGS4). I honestly don't know of anyone who thought this was the norm. 20 Million is very high, and puts the given estimates for copies needed to break even right where we've heard they are for higher end games: 700-1000k units. Sounds about right to me, and only further cements my perception that the PS3 is, indeed, very expensive to develop for. |
well, you do need money to get perfection. and Uncharted is one of the (if not THE) best game of 07 for Sony. 20 million for a PS3GOTY is a bargain in my opinion.
but it's also very risky business, if the game sucks, the developer will get punished heavily by PS3 users, like Lair did
Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.
KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
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