Ninja Theory can recoup Hellblade budget with 300,000 sales

[darkknightkryta]

the_dengle said:

darkknightkryta said:

Depends, Naughty Dog pumped out all their Uncharteds with 20 million dollars budget.  On the other spectrum, God of War 3 took 45 million to make, and that was 5 million under budget.  Depends the time to create the games though.  Naughty Dog took 2 years per Uncharted, God of War 3 took about 4 years to put together. 

Well, the first Uncharted was released 7 years ago. Budgets have probably changed a lot in that time. And although having huge improvements, the sequels could build on the the basic frame established in the first game. Still, it's an interesting figure. I wouldn't have guessed that Uncharted would be "low-end" AAA.

It's all about managing people.  You don't need 1000 (or 600?) people working on a game (Assassin's Creed).