Lazard Analyst: PS3 & 360 games need to sell 600k to break even, Wii 300k

[Legend11]

Bodhesatva said:

Legend11 said:
The cost of marketing a game alone is between 1.5 - 4 million and you think that 7.5 million is for making an epic game and not a minigame/casual game?

source: http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/advertorial/?id=12089

From the article you just posted:

Typical budgets for PlayStation 1 titles ranged from $1.5 to $3 million and grew to average more than $8 million on the PlayStation 2 (2)

This is exactly, precisely in line with what I just said.  

The article in question is talking about development costs before things like marketing, while this thread's article's number of 7.5 million includes marketing.