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3DS dev costs mirror Wii equivalent

3DS dev costs mirror Wii equivalent

Marvelous Entertainment reckons 3DS games cost significantly more to make than PSP or DS

The cost of making a 3D game for Nintendo’s 3DS is significantly higher than doing the same on either the DS or PSP, production studio Marvelous Entertainment has claimed.

1UP reports that the company estimates that the cost of making a 3DS comes in at between $600k and $1.8m.

By comparison, DS development costs stand at around something between $50k and $500k. For PSP there’s greater variation – somewhere between $36k and $710k.

The full story can be read on our sister-site MCV.

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A bad thing?

posted by PPXEXE Nov 23, 2010 at 3:31 am
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PPXEXE

They make it sound like a bad thing, more cost means better games, if the 3ds cost nearly as much as a wii game, then the next nintendo system should cost near or then a PS3 game.

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