| Username2324 said: I think Developers end up with about $30-$40 off each game, so depending on the budget, most would only have to sell 400K to break even or even walk away with some money in their wallet. |
Really? I've heard numbers in the $15-25 range quite often. I doubt it's as high as you said, since retailers and other middlemen cut out a huge chunk.
As for the budgets, the biggest games have really big budgets like GTA4 - $100 million. MGS4 is likely more (maybe significantly more) than $50 million judging from the number of people who worked on the game and development length. Halo 3 was not that expensive, just $30 million plus the same in marketing/developer bonuses according to analysts' estimates.
More average games are around $20 million according to most reports I've seen.
I don't have the sources at hand, these figures are from memory but based on things you can probably find with google.
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