Current-gen game production costs...

[Press_Start]

After a long talk with an interesting fellow about games, developers and the process they take, I'm kinda curious about the costs being put into them.

The topic of game prices had popped up one or twice before, but hardly cover the other end of the processing spectrum. How much do you think companies spend on making games (programming, marketing, packaging, etc)?

[Icarus Moonsight]

It certainly varies widely. GoW 3 took much more money to produce than something like Chicken Shoot, or a good game like Bit.Trip Beat or Core. I'd assume that the upper end has expanded more than the lower end though.