Amen/

On a seperate note.

In regard to my comment of chucking 5 guys in a room with the source code and giving them a few hundred hours to churn out that game. Well I will admit I am not a developer, I have no knowledge of this stuff per se directly. But I do follow things like porting development and what not. I'm pretty sure we're talking something quite close to this in terms of developer investment.

That is assuming this is a HD "enhancement" (or basic upscale in human speak and if previous "enhancments" are anything to go by). Sure if it's a remake then I have no idea at all on developer investment, but official comment currently is that it is 100% a HD upscale with a couple of bells and whistles.

If you want to know a rough guide on the actual PROGRAMMING aspect, just have a look at the end credits for most games that aren't massive blockbusters and you will be surprised just how few people it actually takes to code a game. Most of the work comes in the form of the assets.

Considering the code is just being ported to the PS3, well it can't take that long. The real reason for this taking so long is clearly ineptitude and financially motivated, likely they are trying to tie in the release date with some other "proper" release.

I think Uncharted 2 had 20 coders + senior coders.

Thanks for the info, this explains what I'm getting at.

Uncharted 2 = blockbuster big budget game. Many games from studios that aren't 1st party or sequels to hit games and haven't secured massive funding have 3-4 programmers.

I guess it doesn't really *mean* anything or prove anything inparticular and is highly anecdotal, but ahhhh I dunno....this HD upscalings...I'm going to have a look at the credits of SoTC and ICO and see what it says there since that could be a fair comparison to FFX just outta curiousity.

Squeenix has a conference tomorrow.

Better just to wait.