I heard that GTA IV had around 1000 people working on it I could be wrong.

Squilliam said: It depends. If they use the Wii as the baseline they would only need to sell 100,000 copies. That implies that development costs are well over $100,000,000! Say hello to most expensive game of all times?

Well to be fair it seems like he was just balparking a guess... and one based on expectations and not cost or profitability.

I assume a game like Final Fantasy 13 is expected to do more then break even and it's expectations would be to bring in megacash.

That will be no issue at all, the game will easily sell 5 million WW at absolute worst. Some games can have such development times and $$$ spent because they know the game will make the money back easily ala GT5........also something in the development went wrong. :/

I am more interested in where FFXIV goes, Kitase did say that making console RPG's costs have become extremely high so that most probably means these two games are the last ones the HD twins will get. That is unless the costs for the next FF game would decrease dramatically since the engine has been made but the problem with that is that the engine is multi-plat.

Interesting either way however the one thing I would like to see is both FFXIII and Versus to sell very nicely. Also those saying FFXIII will sell anywhere under 2 million in Japan need a slap across the face. It's been 3 years people FFXIII is a lock on to sell at least 2 million.

Now when you say "thus far", do you mean up to this point or up until the game's release? If the former, I don't know if that's all that impressive (save for Pokemon), and if the latter it'd have a Hell of a time beating Dragon Quest IX.

i wasn't really including handhelds when i said that.  anyway, DS has almost 10x the installed base of PS3, if DQIX doesn't outsell FFXIII in JAP than there's something definitely wrong.