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EA Spends 3x More On Marketing Than Development

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hey-i-know-one-of-their-marketroids dept.

G3ckoG33k writes "According to Electronic Arts officer Rich Hilleman, 'the price of producing console games has rocketed, with marketing costing up to three times more than the development of a title.'" Sounds pretty insane, but does anyone know how this compares to the film industry?

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  1. Re:Why is this a surprise? by thisnamestoolong · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While this is true -- it seems that a lot of the problems with games today is that they are given excessively tight deadlines to get them out, say, by Christmas. To follow the woman/baby analogy -- it takes more resources for a woman to have a baby gestating in her for 9 months than for 5 months. If you can just get that baby out in 5 months, you could save some resources, but the quality of the product (crappy video game vs. good video game/dead fetus vs. live baby) will differ greatly.

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