Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | 9.7 user rating on Metacritic | Disscussion thread

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IcaroRibeiro said:

Chrkeller said:

Have any evidence?  

New York Times published it was 10 million and said the number was straight from Sand Fall.

I am happy to see data that the claimed number is not true, but that requires evidence.

NYC was the original source, which states 10 million was specifically development costs 

The issues here is people are ignoring publishing costs, which can be even higher than development costs

There are at least 300 people involved in this game when counting outsourcing and publishing workers, as well as voice actors and translators, also ignoring the money spent on advertising

This remembers when Pokemon costs were leaked, and people saw the development costs ignoring the marketing costs (as well as the localization costs) 

The quote you reacted on was "Still blows my mind it was made for 10 million".

It never claimed those were total cost of bringing it to market including publishing and/or marketing cost. the key word is "made".