Lawlight said:
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The thing is though is those are just pure development costs. Sony also has to pay a hefty cut to retailers, shipping costs, marketing costs, and whatever other stuff Sony needs to pay for. Theres just no way a game like Killzone 2's total costs were only 40m. while Saints Row were 123 m. Its actually pretty crazy how much of the total costs actually go into devolopment. I saw somewhere that GTAV's development costs alone were about 200+m. so they may have actually spent 400m. after all the marketing (which there was a TON of) and the cuts to the retailers. Obviously is was worth it for them, but the total cost to these companies can be insane. Nintendo has been avoiding marketing costs for years, but I think they need to invest some $$$ into the Wii U. All the ad's they put out at holiday time obviously helped sales.
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I doubt Saints Row 4 cost 123M.
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Same here. Hell, Saints Row 4 uses a lot of stuff from SR3. In fact, I think I read somewhere that SR4 was originally just DLC for SR3 but got expanded into a full game. Even then, SR4 recycles a lot of missions.
