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Originally Posted by Cliche
Production costs of ps3/xbox 360 games are supposed to run anywhere from 30-50M$ to make for a AAA title. Then there's the cost of programmers, artists, level designers, QA, marketing and office managers. And on top of that, you have to pay them all for 2-3 years before you are able to ship something out. 30-50 staff not including QA.
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If I am not mistaken the salaries, everything is included in the $30M when they say that is how much it costs. What else would the money go to? Programs? Alienware computers? Not $30,000,000 worth. It is almost all salaries. Well and marketing.
I don't know why they need $500 million invested though, that would be an enormous studio. The building itself shouldn't cost
that much, but say they hired 1200 employees and each made an average of $65,000 a year. With $500,000,000 that would last them 6 years and 5 months. So I am sure they could produce a TON games in that time.