Cost of Final Fantasy 13 - Page 3

December 31, 2007, 10:19 PM

I'm sorry to burst your bubble but that is not true at all, i would say the max is 300 mil and that would only be because sony supported them with money for exclusivity.

January 2, 2008, 11:28 AM

For starters I seriously doubt 300 million is being spent on the FFXIII games; the LOTR movies, all 3, had to split 300 million between them. If any type of exclusive deal between Sony and SE exists, it happened when Sony bought about 8% of Squaresoft after The Spirits Within bombed at the box-office.

For FFXIII, it's hard to guess. I'm comparing apple to oranges here, Killzone 2 reportedly has a budget of around 20-25 million. An RPG like FFXIII could be double or triple that, or it may not, it could be in the same budget range as Killzone 2.

Keep in mind that the cost of the game would include the amount of money being paid to the people working on it; get a group of 200-250 people working on one game for 2.5 years and that's a lot of money being spent there.

SE's best bet to make profit when FFXIII is released, and this may sound bias to some, is the PS3. It can't be ported to the Wii because it's specs are so much smaller than the PS3. The 360 isn't really doable because it's bombing in Japan; it's been out 2 years or so in Japan and it just recently broke the 500k sold mark.

JRPGs have failed to improve the life of the 360 in Japan; Enternal Sonata, Blue Dragon have come up way short of improving the 360's sales per week. Lost Odyssey has bombed having sold 54k in it's first week, 21k it's second, and fallen off Media Create's Top 50 games sold in Japan in it's 3rd week.

With the PS3 nearing 1.5 million or more sales in Japan, and with a heavy lineup of popular titles coming in 08, plus a large PS2 user base still having to make the jump, FFXIII could very well be in good hands by the time it releases worldwide.

January 17, 2008, 11:49 AM

nah i doubt it being that much ... lol, thats almost a movie budget .. nah, not for a game

January 17, 2008, 3:13 PM

Depends whether we are just talking about XIII as a single game or a series. As a single game it may cost $400,000-$750,000 as a series I would be looking at $5,000,000 or more within the space of 10 years.

January 17, 2008, 4:39 PM

The X-box 360 may be selling alot, but the X-box 360 came out a year before the Wii, and the PS3, it is probably selling less right now because most people already have an X-box 360 or don't want one. Plus alot of people just want the Wii, and the PS3 because they just want to say they have one.

Anyways I'm getting off topic here, they probably wont make FFXII for one hundred million, not unless it is much bigger than FFXII (that game was a reasonably long game). Putting blue ray on to a game does take alot of effort and money, but it shouldn't be one hundred million. And blue ray is really the only special thing about the PS3, it would have to be at least 2 discs to be that much money. So I would say that one hundred million is too high.

January 22, 2008, 1:19 PM

100 mil?!
That's mean that it'll coast us 1 grand man that's the PS3 coast..Dammit!
I'll go with 80 mil.

January 22, 2008, 4:45 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if it was over £100 million.

Modern games are very costly to produce.

February 6, 2008, 8:46 PM

69.99€

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March 13, 2008, 10:28 PM

100 mil beliveable ff has always been the top of the charts when it realesed if theres games out already that had an 80 million dollar budget then i wouldnt be surprised if it was 100 million ff is just that way so dont doubt it cant some one just look this up i dont like to argue.

April 26, 2008, 2:47 AM

100 mill seems a lot for 1 game but if it's all 3 games combined then it definately is a possibility