No doubt that it helps the company.

Should at least cover a great part of the development costs.

But on the same time one should understand that the game is set to aim VERY high and the cost for making the game could easly be top 5 of all time.

This is Sonys big ammo this year and a part of the PS3 hype since day one so no dollars has been spared.

Dunno because

A. It is not on sale yet

B. We do not know the total cost of development and then marketing

Also What was the cost of the development of the GT5P itself? Lots of developers shy away from demos because they distract from the final game. I would of said this dev house needed to keep its distractions down to a minimum and they should ban them from even looking at a new cars I wonder if know that in the long 5 years it has taken to get this ball on the road the interwebz has come a long way and those cars can be dropped into the game piecemeal (For more money as well).

There is one problem for that though, darth. with each passing day that GT5 is not released, that figure is increasing everyday.

Your question is about game that haven't been released. Good job!

Actually, not at all. Good job not reading the OP.

HOW MOSTLY LIKELY NOT??????????????????????????????

and GT5 will cover cost even if it GT5P hadn't in the first week,what the hell are you talking abt an year

it sin't $100m but $60

wat???????????

yamauchi himself said it was $60m and you askw who knows

they didn't start working on it from GT4 and it wasn't there sole project

Tourist trophy,GT PSP and other collabrations take time too

there is so much fail in your posts

you try to pull everything to make the game seem bad

prologue is something like a demo sio yes it was a demo

and jst because you aren't used to games with so much content doesn't mean it isn't a demo.GT5 main games have far much more content than this

why should they.its their passion

its not like they do it like activision or ea and try to make games jst for money.

SONY gives their production studios alot of liberty and very high budget as sony likes a detailed quality project

Yamauchi himself is a car enthusiast,he is no normal video game developer

he does collabration and makes real cars

and works with real life technians and knows about cars and things in his games more than any other developers

and for ur info,Polyphony has done various other stuff too like tourist trohpy,moon toon,omega boost

and normally in the industry when a developer takes  hold of a franchise,they develop only that for many years

4 million copies and $15 a piece = $60 million revenue

No it didnt make profit yet.

I estimate dev cost $80 million plus $40 million marketing. Total $120 mill.  Still $60 million more revenue is needed.

 you are fogeting that 1m downloads with full $40 have also been sold

plus ur estimate is wrong.Yamauchi himself has said the entire budget is $60m

marketing is another thing

even that will be covered in the first week itself

As much as I want it to not make a profit, it probably did.