GT5 $80 million budget?
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- cletus2344
Didn't PD get the 80 million from Sony to develope the game? That is a pretty big chunk if you ask me, but you are right in saying that they do not get much from sales, Sony gets it and distributes it to the developers to meke new games I think.
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- cletus2344
So does anybody around here know about how much Japan pays for new games? Sounds to me like us Americans are getting the best deal. Maybe I should buy a ton of copies and sell them to my fellow GTPers for $60. You guys are being taken advantage of and that sucks!
In New Zealand a newly released PS3 game has an average price of $120 (83USD). You have the extreme cases of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 selling for $150 (104USD) at certain retailers. So for me in NZ, I'm guessing I'll have to fork out $130 for GT5.
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Peter
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There's something like this on G4 as well. It Says Gran Turismo 5-$80 million. Looks like it's true. GTA IV is unsurprisingly on top with $100 million.
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/702824/Top-10-Highest-Estimated-Game-Budgets-Of-All-Time.html
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/702824/Top-10-Highest-Estimated-Game-Budgets-Of-All-Time.html
Both stories are from the same original source though (digitalbattle.com) so just because it's shown up in two different places doesn't make the original story any more acurate.
Infact Ken Imaizumi has already come out and said that the $60 million the article quotes for Metal Gear Solid 4 is not true (although they do not say what the real figure is)
http://kotaku.com/5479974/kojima-productions-on-mgs4-budget-claims
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I don't find 80 million dollars strange at all. E.g. Killzone 2 cost 40 million dollars to develop, and many other games cost the same (or more). Over the years, costs (and thankfully, revenues as well) have increased a lot.
And it may sound a lot, but they'll probably play even in just the first day after release.
And it may sound a lot, but they'll probably play even in just the first day after release.
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Wow, you soon ducked out of that debate after getting the facts handed to you!
So what if a game sells for $70 - $80 on the shelves...it still doesn't hide the fact that only a proportion of that sale is net profit that truly goes towards covering the original development costs.
Factor in everything down the supply chain from physical production through to the game hitting the store shelves, and the various cuts taken by the parties involved, you would have to sell significantly more than your calcu-guess to break even (two or three times more at least). I'm sure it will break even, and then some, but retail price != pure profit.
As for the $80m development figure - I can easily see that just relating to GT5. Back in April 2008, Kaz confirmed that effectively all 120 PD staff had been working on GT5 for 4 years. April 2010 would make that 6 years. 120 people at 40 hours per week, earning an average of, say, $20 an hour equates to almost $30m purely in PD salaries alone. Factor in the salaries of other contractors, vendors, hardware costs, travel, marketing etc. and it's easy to believe that $80m figure, especially when it was confirmed at $60m around 2 years ago.
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Considering the news on the front page, he has been just a little busy..... (lucky bastard)
Anyway, GT5P has already covered most the cost of GT5 development, not to mention GT6 will use borrow much of the tech used in GT5. It will pay off many times.
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http://gamers.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/playstation.aspx
might make for some interesting reading
might make for some interesting reading
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- GTP_Nismo
not really, no.
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I found it interesting, a lot more interesting than any of your recent input to this forum. Cheers fraggle
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Am I the only one who thinks gtaIV was rubbish compared to SA I wonder what the budget for that was?.
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If you believe GT5 will recover it's development budget after being on sale for just one week, why wouldn't PD double it's staff and resources, and release the title far sooner.
In that scenario GT5 could have been released two years ago, and they could be readying GT6 right now.
In that scenario GT5 could have been released two years ago, and they could be readying GT6 right now.
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Those games were completely different in concept. SA was just about dicking around, whilst GTAIV was trying to tell a "story" - like GTA3, but not as stylish.
I think GTAIV, despite the relative lack of "features" is a better sandbox than SA. The grittiness and faux-realism make it capable of dealing heavier psychological blows (it took me a few hours to muster up the visciousness to actually run somebody over, for example!). I think I prefer it.
You can't just add people to several disparate teams and expect productivity to increase proportionally - they've been out of the loop for far too long. I imagine they're getting close now to wrapping GT5 up, at which point I have no doubt Sony will throw a huge team at the production, marketing etc. processes. It'll be here soon enough.
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- squishydk
KY needs to crash test all cars in the game to be 100% sure the damage is simulated properly. That cost a lot of $
No in all seriousness, i'm not surprised at all. A game of this magnitude will cost a lot to develop. Blizzard have spend figures similar to that on online games a few times. And ofc they earn them again.
For the ones who doubt if they will actually earn on this:
as mentioned before aswell.
They only need to sell appox. 3 million copys or so to start getting a benefit from it. Europe alone will have that figure in preorder
Further more the sales of PS3 will get a huge boost, and that need to be counted aswell in all fairness. Maybe even increased sales of TVs (3D tv fx, or people getting HD flatscreens for their PS3)
So all in all
No in all seriousness, i'm not surprised at all. A game of this magnitude will cost a lot to develop. Blizzard have spend figures similar to that on online games a few times. And ofc they earn them again.
For the ones who doubt if they will actually earn on this:
as mentioned before aswell.
They only need to sell appox. 3 million copys or so to start getting a benefit from it. Europe alone will have that figure in preorder
Further more the sales of PS3 will get a huge boost, and that need to be counted aswell in all fairness. Maybe even increased sales of TVs (3D tv fx, or people getting HD flatscreens for their PS3)
So all in all
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