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"I'd struggle to make a game for less than $50...
"I'd struggle to make a game for less than $50...
gamesindustry - April 21, 2008
Submitted by Mushashi (5) at 3:55AM PST on April 21, 2008
David Jones, creator of iconic titles like Lemmings, GTA and Crackdown, has told GI.biz that the cost of creating high quality original games with strong, new IP has skyrocketed to the point where he'd find it hard to spend less than $50 mln on a title. "Unfortunately these days it does take that amount. Crackdown wasn't that long ago and our development budget was something like $50 mln, and even that to me now, I don't know if I could do anything for much less than that."
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1DrMarioKart posted on Industry News at 6:00PM PST on April 21, 2008. RE: "I'd struggle to make a game for less than $50...bids
1apujanata posted on Industry News at 5:39PM PST on April 21, 2008. RE: "I'd struggle to make a game for less than $50...@Mushashi,
50 Million is a lot of money. I wonder what his expenditure was when he develop games on PS2 platform 5 years ago ? 5 Million ?[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
23Mushashi posted on Industry News at 3:55AM PST on April 21, 2008. Article: "I'd struggle to make a game for less than $50...David Jones, creator of iconic titles like Lemmings, GTA and Crackdown, has told GI.biz that the cost of creating high quality original games with strong, new IP has skyrocketed to the point where he'd find it hard to spend less than $50 mln on a title. "Unfortunately these days it does take that amount. Crackdown wasn't that long ago and our development budget was something like $50 mln, and even that to me now, I don't know if I could do anything for much less than that."[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 5 ]
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IMO, GTA and Crackdown are top ranked in development and marketing cost, so this coment is not really surprising.
The surprising thing is the fact that beside making GTA and Crackdown, DAvid Jones also create Lemmings, a game not known for it's graphical achievement, but with it's quality puzzle like action.
I believe a lot of people envy Brain Age (1) game, and their 10 man development team with 6 month development period, which surely mean very low development cost (of course, it have high license cost, since Nintendo need to pay the university for using their research result).