Grand Theft Auto IV... 100 million spent? (Cost of GTAIV)

[twesterm]

disolitude said:

twesterm said:
That $100million number actually sounds too low.

It sounds high at first but take into account the game took 4 years to make and they say that they had a 100 person team (yet they have 74 artists and at least as many designers and programmers so more than 100).

So assuming that the $100million is just employee's salary then that means each employee there makes $25k/year which is way too low. The average up there is probably pretty close to California so that number should be around $50k/year (very light assumption there).

That means with 100 employee's the game should have spent $200million in salaries alone. Throw in the insane advertising campaign, overhead, and everything else and that number gets even higher.

Yeah but i'm sure those employees worked on other games as well...manhnt 2, Rockstar table tennis, bully...its not just GTA4 right.

 GTA took 4 years to create and 100 people is probably about the right size since you have to account for people leaving and coming into the project at various times.  I forgot to account for people coming and leaving and working cross projects when I first wrote that and said there were probably more.  

Still though, 100 people working for four years where the cost of living is fairly high the cost should be higher than $100 million.