HR was announced at E3 2006, so it has been in the making for about 4 years (at least) the difference in price if you figure Polyphony @ 60 mil for 5 years = 12 mil per year.

Quantic may have a smaller staff than Polyphony (I'd almost guarantee it) so maybe that is why the game was 2 mill per year cheaper than GT5?

@Rainbird

Thank you for posting this, but I had already done so last night http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=102604&page=1&str=1771639374#, but hey its positive :) so its all good.

@ Winters

You're welcome, but I posted first. Look at the time stamps

@Rainbird

Mmm thats weird, i thought i was light years ahead of your post, maybe due to the PS3 problem all clocks had trouble last night, kudos to you.

Even so... it's still only a guess...

I am surprised at the success this game had out of the gate. I personally thought the game was over-hyped and believed it would be graphics over gameplay. I am so glad I was wrong and the demo was enough to convince me to buy it and I am loving it!

http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStation3/4-/6459957/Heavy-Rain/Product.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Heavy-Rain-PS3/dp/B002BWONF8/ref=pd_ts_zgc_vg_h__676457011_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&pf_rd_p=472155353&pf_rd_s=right-6&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=16423381&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1MQF51EA5T20HKG55W7P

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=205;6;-1;-1;82&sku=859341

Guess Sony have a different definition of low stock to everyone else :)

They are all for online orders though. Online retailers will have a centralised stock and so we have no idea how many copies they have left. High Street retailers are a different story with localised stock varying from store to store. I'm sure Game/Gamestation will have some stock left but many of their stores may have very low individual stock.

GT5 is $60 million to develop yes? There are other costs you need to add to that $60 million to get the total cost of getting the game to market (and hence the break even point). Again at a guess I'm going to suggest the break even point for GT5 will be around $80 million. Fortunately for PD they have the profits from GT5P that they can add to the pot which means GT5 itself doesn't need to return the whole $80 million. Even so GT5 will well and truly earn PD a LOT more than $80 million.

You will note, I'm sure, that I guessed break even for HR would be $50 million, I never claimed $50 million was the development cost for HR. My guess for that would be something like $35-$40 million. If my guesses are well high and HR's break even is more like $35 million that means the game will have just about broken even within its first 2 weeks of sales. That would be outstanding.

I think this generation is in a pretty good place if a game that uses the PS3's technology to the extent that HR does can turn a profit with less than 1 million in sales. Being the costliest (apparently) console to develop on means turning a profit in game sales should be starting to get fairly easy for everyone; as long as you produce a quality product.

nice i got it right on time!! from HMV in harrods haha