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Cost of Game Development is 'Crazy' Says EA

Posted by Zonk on from the they-would-know dept.

GamesIndustry.biz has the word from Alan Tascan, general manager of EA's Montreal studio, who has gone on record saying that development costs are 'crazy' in this next-gen world. From the article: "When asked whether he'd agree that it's larger companies like EA which are driving bigger game budgets, Tascan replied, 'I think a lot of [other companies] are spending even more money. It's people who want that, it's not EA per se ... I said to some of the guys here, "The gamer is not buying lines of code; you have to promise him enough entertainment for him to put his hand in his pocket and buy the game." It's a lot of money, so you need to give him a show, and we're just here to deliver the show.'"

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  1. No Problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good thing EA only has to develop one Madden game per console.

    I kid, I kid...

  2. Spending more by tansey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think a lot of [other companies] are spending even more money.

    Yeah, but the other companies pay their employees overtime.

  3. Re:This has been bothering me for a while. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When a game is rushed to the door to meet an arbitrary deadline, quality suffers.

    So Duke Nukem Forever is going to be the greatest game ever when it's released. Right?

  4. So? by Svartalf · · Score: 4, Funny

    English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes rifling through their pockets looking for loose grammar.

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    I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
  5. Re:Cry me a river... by Aladrin · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean like stability? Oh wait, isn't that one of the things they DON'T have?

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    "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
  6. Re:define 'crazy' by Wite_Noiz · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sounds about right.

    On that note, EA should stop crying - imagine how much Duke Nukem Forever is costing to develop!

  7. Dude! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It has Gandalf!

    And that guy from Pirates of the Carribbean! What was his name? Oh yeah, Legolas!

  8. Re:Being a Spelling Nazi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >first declension feminine

    Sounds great. You wouldn't have pictures of that?

  9. Re:Blah by MeanderingMind · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mine transgressions are arrayed before me, a terrible countenance of my crimes wherein no petition or pennance could redeem so corrupt a soul as mine. Surely there is no forgiveness for one such as I... ...what is this? Some visage descends from the hills proclaiming my salvation! It's.... it's... ...what the hell God? Why is a SatanicPuppy telling me to go and sin no more?

    (The irony was too much for me, -1 Offtopic I think, but worth it)

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