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TheThunder on 21 July 2009

Development costs for Ghostbusters: The Game totalled between USD 15 million and USD 20 million, according to a US newspaper.

The Fort Worth Star Telegram reported the figure, according to Kotaku, as part of a profile on Terminal Reality. Last month, actor Dan Aykroyd told If magazine the game did indeed accrue a high budget, saying: "I know they spent a lot of money on this game like USD 12 million or USD 15 million - and that’s a nice budget to do a great game."

Originally set to be published by Vivendi, the game was bought up by Atari when its publisher merged with Activision. Subsequently, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe signed a deal to publish the PlayStation SKU of the game across PAL territories. Upon its release in the UK last month, the game entered the all-formats chart at number four.

 

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ghostbusters-the-game-topped-USD15-million-dev-costs

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MontanaHatchet on 21 July 2009

I hope Twesterm makes his money back.



 

 

JaggedSac on 21 July 2009

It is probably Twesterm's taste for fine liquors and women that the dev costs are that much.



Squilliam on 21 July 2009

I think it was all the devil summoning that got them over budget. All the good developers pick one intern to sell their souls for good sales.



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waron on 21 July 2009

guess that party in Halswell House wasn't a good idea.



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FootballFan on 21 July 2009

Twesterm will go bankrupt



Squilliam on 21 July 2009
FootballFan said:
Twesterm will go bankrupt

The HD versions are at half a million. Im pretty sure they'll do decently if the game cracks a million overall on those two SKUs.



Tease.

badgenome on 21 July 2009

You want the best level design in the business? It don't come cheap!



Zlejedi on 21 July 2009

So it will break even with 500-600k so much about the milions of copies needed to cover cost of HD games.



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waron on 21 July 2009
Zlejedi said:
So it will break even with 500-600k so much about the milions of copies needed to cover cost of HD games.

well it wasn't big project. i would say that it was kind of B rated game by movie standards. it was alongside Bionic Commando, Banjo, Turok or
Fear 2 not a front loaded game like Assassins Creed or Shaun White.