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Forums - Sony - GT5 cost is $60 million: Kazunori Yamauchi

Rainbird on 04 November 2009
kowenicki said:
wowser... $60m "a fairly small amount"

i see.

Relative to the circumstances, as he says



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tedsteriscool on 04 November 2009

Holy shit, that's way less than pretty much everyone thought ($100m was being thrown around). Prologue probably did cover 100% of the costs, then!



lestatdark on 04 November 2009

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It's just speculation, but with the Track Editor rumors, and the SEMA event showing cars with different body kits, this may be true. Hopefully more info will arise in the next weeks :)



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psrock on 04 November 2009
kowenicki said:
wowser... $60m "a fairly small amount"

i see.

for a 10 million seller, thats cheap



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makingmusic476 on 04 November 2009
kowenicki said:
wowser... $60m "a fairly small amount"

i see.

For a game of its caliber, it is.  It's far less than the >$100 million for GTAIV and FFXIII. 

Plus it's likely GT5P already paid for most if not all of that.  Given that Sony publishes the game and doesn't have to pay royalties to themselves, plus there are no retailer margins on titles sold on PSN, they've probably made at least $20 on average per copy of GT5P sold.  That's almost 80 million.



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uso on 04 November 2009

do not forget that they have sold 3 million GT5P

libellule on 04 November 2009
lestatdark said:
"What other features will GT5 have?

There will be 400,000 polygons per car, 100 times more than were present on GT4. GT4 had 4,000 polygons per car. You can customize and tune the cars, too."

This part particulary caught my eye. We always had the tuning option for the cars, but now, what does he mean by customize? May it be adding extra body parts that weren't available in other GT games?


same for me EXCEPT I expected a better answer than : "we added more polygons" lol

it is only "funny" how he said "damage" were easy to implement ... we will see



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makingmusic476 on 04 November 2009
uso said:

do not forget that they have sold 3 million GT5P

3.7 million including PSN downloads, according to Polyphony's website.



shanbcn on 04 November 2009
makingmusic476 said:
kowenicki said:
wowser... $60m "a fairly small amount"

i see.

For a game of its caliber, it is.  It's far less than the >$100 million for GTAIV and FFXIII. 

Plus it's likely GT5P already paid for most if not all of that.  Given that Sony publishes the game and doesn't have to pay royalties to themselves, plus there are no retailer margins on titles sold on PSN, they've probably made at least $20 on average per copy of GT5P sold.  That's almost 80 million.

So FFXIII budget is $100 million?



luvtospooge on 04 November 2009

I find it hard to believe FF13 cost 100mil to make and GT5 total cost was 60mil...