CESA report: dev costs highest on GC (japan)
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is it an average? because of course with the amount of games available for PS2, and the amount of CRAPPY games on PS2, the average would be lower.... while on GC, where up until not long ago i could count on 4 hands (not that i have 4 hands...) the games available for it, and with how many were hi budget nintendo first party games, then of course the average would be higher...
Yeah, what london said, all those barbie games drive down the average on ps2, and since the only thing you really see on gamecube now are high profile games, it has the highest.(Capcom has several expensive games, nintendo, sega...eh.....who else still makes game for the system? oh yeah, factor 5 has one game)
Another thing to take into account is that in Japan often a company will make, say, a mahjong or horse racing or pachinko game and then every 6 months after that will rerelease a new edition virtually identical to the last.* I've always felt that they coded/designed all those "games" at once then slowly released them. 
Since almost all of these games are on PS2 now that probably drives the average down by a very large amount since a far larger chunk of Japan's PS2 library than you might think is occupied by these genres.
*Kind of like sports titles here but only more shameless.
Since almost all of these games are on PS2 now that probably drives the average down by a very large amount since a far larger chunk of Japan's PS2 library than you might think is occupied by these genres.*Kind of like sports titles here but only more shameless.
SEGA has some of the worst development costs for games when it comes to this stuff. It probably ranks high on the list, but I don't see how for the GCN as mostly SEGA stuff on that is just ports. Still, I don't see how the GCN could be $607,000 and the PS2 so little? I guess it's an overall average of how many games are on the system to what their budgets are.