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

[Bodhesatva]

Hold on, Legend, I knew those numbers sounded odd. Look at this article:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6133848.html

It states that PS2/Xbox/GC games averaged less than 1 million in developmental costs, not 8. Relevant text:

The average price of the 13 Xbox games included in the survey was 202 million yen ($1.8 million), with PlayStation 2 and GameCube development costs trailing behind at 96 million yen ($877,634) and 90 million yen ($822,857), respectively.

This is much, much closer to what I'd read before -- the total cost for a game could reach 8 million last generation, but rarely (if ever) the developmental costs alone. I'm pretty sure it's your article is mistaken.