3DS game development costs up to 1.8 million dollars 3 times times higher than DS

The net (Compile/Heaven small white) in the game developer Marvelous Entertainment's financial document extracts,　　Japanese Game blog Hachimaki found a thing: the development of a 3DS game will cost about 50 million to 150 million yen (about 600,000 to 1.8 million U.S. dollars, RMB 40.012 billion or so). The figure was revealed at a question-and-answer session at the company's financial outlook meeting, when reporters asked how much it would cost to make a 3DS game: "Each game marvelous will give a 50 million to 150 million (yen) budget." "The budget given by marvelous is based on the average cost of game development in 2009," he said. According to the data collected by CESA (the organizer of the Tokyo video game show),　　In 2009, the development cost of each DS game in Japanese developers was between 4.4 million and 43.9 million yen (about 53,000 to 527,000 dollars), and the development cost of each PSP game was between 3 million to 59.2 million yen (about 36,000 to 710,000 dollars). In addition to the development cost of some mainstream palm machine, compared with the home machine 3DS development cost is no less. The average single game development cost for the Wii platform last year was 160 million yen (about $1.4 million), while game development on PS3 and XBOX360 was more than 200 million yen, and the PS3 platform game reached 250 million yen (about 3 million dollars,　　Nearly 20 million RMB). According to Marvelous Entertainment's official website, the company is working on 2 3DS Games: One is pasture language, the other is a mock management game called Animal resorts. (Edit/Ming)