Ever Wonder How Much It Costs To Make A Game These Days? [Research]

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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2010/01/cream2.jpgWe hear it a lot these days. It costs a lot to develop a game for the 360 and PlayStation 3. But have you ever wondered how much "a lot" actually is?
According to research undertaken by M2 - the same guys responsible for the disturbance in the workforce study (http://kotaku.com/5445964/so-how-many-people-actually-lost-their-jobs-last-year) - the average cost of a "multiplatform next-gen game" is between $18,000,000 and $28,000,000.
You want to know why so many games get binned in pre-production, that's why; at $28 million, a publisher needs to know (or, to be more realistic, needs to think) a HD game is going to sell millions.
Even if most games inevitably don't.
Study: Average dev costs as high as $28m (http://www.develop-online.net/news/33625/Study-Average-dev-cost-as-high-as-28m) [Develop]


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