Cost of Game Development is 'Crazy' Says EA

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.'"

Comments

No Problem

[Anonymous Coward]

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

I kid, I kid...

Spending more

[tansey]

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

Yeah, but the other companies pay their employees overtime.

So?

[Svartalf]

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

Re:Cry me a river...

[Aladrin]

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

Re:Blah

[MeanderingMind]

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)