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Shatts on 16 October 2022
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sc94597 said:
Shatts said:

Honestly that can mean anything. He didn't specify Bayonetta, and he probs meant $10 million is the minimum for AAA from that statement. Bayonetta is action heavy, hack and slash genre. For reference God of War III, a similar hack and slash game that released on the PS3 a year after Bayonetta 1 costed $44 million to make. I highly doubt Bayonetta is a $10 million game but I have no decisive evidence either. 

1. God of War was a long established franchise by the time III released. 

2. It was one of Sony's top IP's and its prequels sold very well on the PS2.

3. Bayonetta was a new IP pushed by a new independent developer. Bayonetta 2 was a revived IP given a second chance to prove itself. 

4. Platinum games is somewhat smaller than Santa Monica studios, and had multiple titles in development at the same time as Bayonetta 1 and 2. Development costs are primarily labor costs. 

5. AAA titles worked on by Platinun Games tend to just barely break the "AAA" barrier. Nier Automata was considered a financial success when it broke the 1 million sales barrier and that game definitely has a bigger budget than Bayonetta 2. 

$10-15 million for development and a few more for Nintendo's anemic marketing sounds about right. But even if it were $20-$25 million, with 1.9 million sales Nintendo definitely made a healthy profit. 

Most of these are assumptions and some are wrong bcuz Platinum is about the same size as Santa Monica, and Santa Monica was also developing multiple titles. Games are a lot more expensive to make nowadays. We have to remember the reason why Wii U had so little third party games was due to how difficult it was to make a game for it. Like u said, development costs are primarily labor costs. If u want to compare, the average interval between God of War games was 3 years, Nier also about 3 years, whereas Bayonetta games are taking 5 years. 

Anyways, we are just spitting bullshit at each other and all of this is heavy speculation relying on random sources. My point is tho, I wonder where the heck she got 450m from and we can all agree Bayonetta is definitely not that big right? Even u agreed half a billion is ridiculous.