If Sonic Boom was a PS4 game then its budget would have been at least 5 times bigger. I blame the Wii U and Nintendo for releasing it.

This is actually a pretty darn high budget. Take in consideration that this is a spin-off video game based on a TV show based on a franchise, and you'll see that 20 million is not nothing at all.

As a comparison to something from the current Naughty Dog bunch, Uncharted and Uncharted 2 also had budgets of ~20 Million.

Looking at that, I can see this being about right when looking at dev time and it being multiplat.

SEGA is insane.

Wait uncharted2 had a budget of 20 million?

Going by that, sega does seem insane

I'm not so much surprised by the budget, but rather by the length of the development cycle. Almost three whole years, for a Sonic game? Wow.

I find the 20M figure to be rather low

remember it is also coming to 3DS and it probably is a complete different development, not a port like many Vita games for example

how this compare to the 30M $ estimation for TW101 budget? LOL. no i cant do it. that figure is bullshit.
This pretty much confirms TW101 cant be 2x bayonetta budget as Kamiya told, and you all got trolled again by him.

I guess the 3DS version isn't included. The article talks about Big Red Button's Sonic Boom. The 3DS version is another game from another developer.

And be cautious when publishers talk about "development costs", they often include marketing costs in that number. Around 75% of CoD's budget is used for marketing.

Naughty Dog is known to be a guru when it comes to development budgets. Games like are Uncharted are rare, most big AAA games are $60m+ nowadays...with obscenities like GTA which are $150m+. 

Incoming profit, i do see it profiting :p

I'd give it around December release.