aeilkema opened this issue on Sep 05, 2009 · 142 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 05 September 2009 at 11:42 AM
According to a Wikipedia article
Quote - In an April 2008 interview, game creator Kazunori 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.
750 man-years!!! Assuming a fully burdened average cost for one full-time employee is $120K, a reasonable estimate for the cost of development is $90 million. I'm pretty sure (not certain) that's more than the total revenue of all versions of Poser and all products on CP combined for all of history.
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