A new report by Japan's CESA (Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association) has revealed the Xbox is the most expensive current console to develop games for. The association collected data from 28 games companies to come up with the average cost of game development. Games for the rival PS2 cost about 877,000 to develop, while GameCube games come in at an economical 822,000.Interestingly, the cost of producing a PSP game is about the same as one for the PS2, while developers on the Nintendo DS see a serious saving with an average price tag of 338,286.
However because Japanese studios have not invested in producing Xbox software on the same level as the PS2, the numbers may not be wholly reliable:
The figures for the Xbox are skewed somewhat, of course, because so few Japanese studios have ever invested significantly in producing Xbox software - meaning that they don't realise the same economies of scale that they have over the lifespan of the PS2.
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