Congratulations Quantic Dream! You deserve it.

Also we need to see that Quantic Dream is a dev team anywhere between 11-50 employees in size and I would guess it is probably around the 30-35 mark. The game was in development for anywhere between 4-5 years so if we go high end and say they make 100k/year we are talking around 25M total for a 50 man project over a 5 year span, which I am pretty sure it isn't.

I am pretty sure the game already broke even and/or is beginning to show overall profit. 

Correct me my maths are wrong. 

Dev size I found here: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/quantic-dream

Dev time was figured seeing as how it was first shown at E3 2006, so I tacked on a year to a year and a half possible for any work that may have been done prior to E3, although this work was probably done without the full staff.

you are evil =[, now i want the game to be made.

Well done, although sales are slowing down

Well deserved. Let it RAIN!!!!!

The amount of people working on Heavy Rain was considerably more, and also varied. In this interview, David Cage says the maximum number was over 200 people at once (he gives an accurate number, but I can't remember it).

Those 200+ include the 400+ people in the casting call or no?

I just can't see this game costing upwards of 40-50M with the expectations they had in regards to sales, unless in France they get paid like crap.

Edit - Those 400+ or so (can't remember the number), can't remember if it was just interviews.

Anyone have a link that could give me a rough estimate on the full development costs for this game?

Congrats to Heavy Rain and QD for being willing to take risks and invest in quality gaming!

omg go away if you think so instead of saying it.

OT: That's great for QD. I'd like to see more of them in the future and this is a good indication of things to come.

I totally agree.

The game reminds me to Choose your own adventure, collection of books that I used to love as a child.