Well, probablly not since they didn't get a bonus from the game since they didn't make a profit but each developer probablly made around 500k for the 4 years they worked on it.

So kas answer me this. If Tim Allen voiced the King in HS what do you think he would have gotten paid for 2 years of his time? Humor me. You are saying Andy wouldn't get paid nearly as much as them but if Tim gets 750k for an hour how much would he get for 2 years? I'm willing to bet he would get damn near 10 million like it was a role for a movie... so how are you saying Andy wouldnt get nearly as much as Tim when I'm not suggesting he did?

Letsdance, his production roles would be paid at a rate comparable to the industry standard for those roles. That's about $90k per year. So if he was part of the team full time for 3 years, that's only $270k. His voice acting portion would take up far less time yet pay perhaps a little more total.

All in all, I'm quite certain he wasn't paid more than $1 million for his entire contribution to the game. And I'd wager it was probably closer to $750k.

That's because HD consoles tend to games of a higher caliber. The typical HD game is much higher quality than the typical Wii game.

Its not hard to believe the average Wii game only need to sell 300K, because the average Wii game is low budget or shovelware. I'm sure games like Dead Space Extraction, CoD, Dead Rising, No More Heroes, Conduit, and Resident Evil need to sell more than 300K.

Thank you.  I asked someone else in the industry for their opinion, but your that guy who talks to industry people right?  And did those roundtable discussions back when those happened?

Not by as much as you're thinking it would but yes, they do require a little higher sales.

Dead Rising, No More Heroes, the CoD's, The Conduit and the RE games made profit according to their publishers.   I think DS: Extraction is the only one that's still working toward it.

Development time, staff volume and other factors are what determine production costs.  Even the bigger Wii titles do not requie the same number of programmers, artists, etc...or the same volume of development time as the average HD title does.

For example, the Wii title with the largest development budget is Super Mario Galaxy which is believed to be $15-20 million but some reports believe that includes the marketing budget too.   Yet the average HD game has a development budget of $10-15 million without marketing. 

You're welcome.  I plan to ask Tameem about it all this so hopefully we'll have less speculation and more truth to work with real soon.

No kidding. The game was that short and they still spent so much money on it that 1.5 million in sales in a favorable first party contract didn't even allow them to break even? I hope Ninja Theory has their shit together this time around or it might end up being their last dance.

Anyone who says the game is four hour long never played it to completion - or more likely never even played it at all. And those who say it's five hours long are cut from the same cloth or exagerating because it gives them something to rag on.

At minimum, the game is six hours long and if you get stuck on any parts or end up dieing a lot, you'll looking at at least seven hours.

Extensive CG? Don't you know that all four of the Metal Gear Solid games eschew traditional CG entirely? Their cinematics are all done in engine and with in-game assets.

Sony fronted the money for development so as publisher, they get paid first. It always works that way with publishing deals.

Sorry for the threepeat in posts but I'm addressing very different points in each.