it depends on the following - does a enw game engine need to be made if so tack on a year or so does the game need to be developed for a enw platform card chip etc? if so either tack on a year or lower the quality of the graphics physics etc. This is why the PS3 is sucking so badly as compared to the xbox 360 despite a similarly powerful GPU and a more powerful CPU. how much hiden pron and other shid si scatted throughout the game etc. Merged Post: weeks hello?!?!?!?! how is SportX 2k5 that much diferent than SportX 2k6
They probably have 100s of workers, but probably only a dozen or two people doing the art and the rest coding. Since you wouldn't want there to be major differences in sceneros and stuff like that o.o.
typically a design crew rarely surpasses 50 people. Read the credits in a game, or the packaging which comes with a game.