Surely as of 2008, it had cost $60M? He didn't say the original GT cost that much, he said GT5 had.
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Originally posted by charlesr View Post"In an April 2008 interview, Yamauchi revealed that 150 people had worked on Gran Turismo 5 for four years, with all of Polyphony Digital's 120 employees working on GT5, and the game costing 50 times more to develop than 1997's Gran Turismo, with Yamauchi later disclosing that Gran Turismo 5 had cost $60 million to develop" (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Turismo_5)
So as of 2008, it had cost $3,000,000,000 to develop (4 years worth). So add on another $2,000,000,000 for the 3 years since then. That's a total of $5bn to develop.
Original GT sold 10.85 million copies, so maybe this will sell that many. So to break even, this will have to retail at $500 a copy. Even if every PS3 owner on the planet (35m) buys one, to break even, it will have to retail at $142 a copy (presuming manufacture costs are negligable compared to the bonkers dev cost).
Either Yamauchi is a big fat liar, or this is the biggest balls up in the history of massive balls ups in balls up land.
There's also another alternative. That I've got my outrageous sums wrong.
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Charles, you really should work for the Daily Mail with that whole using some of the words they used but removing others thing that you have going on there!
Gran Turismo 5 had a $60 million budget which included the development of the 5 million copies of Grant Turismo 5 Prologue that were sold up to June this year. Also, the interview was with Autoweek on the 5th November 2009 which by most people's reckoning isn't anywhere near 2008.
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Originally posted by Dogg Thang View PostJust like Duke Nukem Forever then.
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See, what they should have done is make a deal where they take a couple of the teams that churn out the Call Of Duty games twice a month and put them on to Gran Turismo. Had they done that on the day GT4 came out (can't remember the date as we were on the Julian calendar back then), we would be on at least GT27 by now. And everyone would be happy.
If anyone needs help with their multi-national corporation, my services are available.
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Details of Red Bull's Adrian Newey designed X1 Prototype have been released today.
Engine: Gas turbine, 1483bhp at 15,000 RPM. 527lb ft at 12,000 RPM
Transmission: Continuously variable rear-wheel drive
Top Speed: 249mph
Weight: 545kg
Length: 4750mm
Width: 2180mm
Height: 980mm
Suzuka Lap Time: 1:11.540 (Sebastian Vettel?s 2009 F1 lap time of 1:30.833)
Special Features: Enclosed wheels with ?fan element? to increase low and medium-speed downforce
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Originally posted by Roddie View PostSurely as of 2008, it had cost $60M? He didn't say the original GT cost that much, he said GT5 had.
I read it wrong. I read it over and over but somehow my brain just didn't see that 5. Every time. Must be getting old. Next day I can see it.
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