Twitter user: "No Bayonetta on PS4?" Hideki Kamiya: "Ask Ninty, also ask for Mario and Zelda on PS4"

[DonFerrari]

SpokenTruth said:

DonFerrari said:

Sure salary is the most relevant cost to calculate. But art style, size of game and VA add on team size and additional cost.

100-300 (fixed and contracted to specific portions) for 5 years were more or less the involvement for GT5 at the time. Zelda although with simpler look have a lot of attention to detail that can drive dev time to higher portions.

But about the 100 for Zelda, do you have a source that the 100 were involved around the whole project the whole time? (because a lot of steps on the game are specific to one team while other artists don't participate).

100 was the core staff on BotW. 
Miyamato explained the following, “Breath of the Wild has over 100 staff, and over 300 people in the credits, spending over 5 years.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2016/06/30/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-needs-to-sell-2-million-copies-to-break-even/#7489c2a5615f

 

GT5 was expensive to make because it had to license so many cars, tracks and music.  That stuff can cost more than the actual development itself.  I'm reading a $60 million budget which may or may not include marketing.  Licensing easily could have been half that cost.

I wasn't discussing GT5 cost against Zelda... just showing that both had about the same fixed and fluctuating staff on similar lenght to dev... which is impressive on Zelda closer to cell-shaded and not photorealism, but pointing that a lot of that goes to the attention to detail put.

And you are right that the difference in cost between both (although I think GT5 took more than 5 years in the making, but regardless) is due to licensing since it doesn't have much VA or even CG made for it and both have Japanese team.