http://geimin.net/da/expense.php

- Development costs are calculated using the average from a number of titles.
- Development cost (title count). "―" Data not counted.
(Development cost unit: millions of yen)

- From 2001 to 2004, standard titles are combined with budget titles.
- From 2005 onwards, top represents standard titles and bottom represents budget titles.
(Budget titles: priced below 3,000 yen or inexpensive Best editions, etc.)

2008/11/15: Development costs for 2007 published.

So it is in 10.000s of dollars then.

The DS may cost less to develop for than it did to develop for GBA. Insane.

What is interesting here, is that you can see that

Ps2 costs ~ 1.5 times as much pr game as GC, perhaps a little more.

XB is almost equal to GC

360 costs ~ 2 times to develop for over Wii.

Ps3 costs ~ 1.5 times as much as 360.

Also, the average Wii game in 2007 cost 10M dollars to make. If we consider that they get in 15 dollars a game, that means 666K is needed. As Nintendo released 10 titles, they probably make the average a lot higher. Overall, the total for Wii should go heavily in plus.

The average of those 7 Ps3 games is 30 million, crazy. No doubt, all those titles lost money. Most Sony titles aren't in there, as Motorstorm and Resistance. The only of those 7 that didn't lose a lot of money is GT5:Prologue, and I'll guess that went about even.

The cheap Wii games need just around 130K sold to go even. I think a lot of Wii games should fit in here. And of course, some DS games are nutty cheap.

Very interesting chart.

(Development cost unit: millions of yen)


Hmm, isn't it "ten millions of yen", otherwise it would be a bit too low.

3.000.000 Dollar for a PS3 game e.g.

But thx, very interesting data. :)

well i'm sure the jump from the costs of PS2 games to PS3 games isn't very appealing to developers. PS2 averaged around 85 or so while PS3 is around 270.

no wonder DS and wii are getting japaneese support

actually the more i look at this the more i question the data, not that it is incorrect but that we don't know what titles are included and how much they are supposed to sell/what markets they are geared towards.
in 2004 you'll see a 200 for xbox even though it's an average of 13 titles then the next year is 22 for 14 titles. the consoles that have many years like the GC, xbox, and ps2 you can get better information because of how many titles were released, but PS3, 360, and wii still don't have that many titles and the numbers won't necessary average out well.

DS games are pretty low cost....

No wonder DS is getting all the games. It's just stupid for any dev to develop for other console that's not the DS. Even Nintendo is doing this to a certain extent.