With stand alone games, companies have traded off the cost of development for performance.
He goes on to list the cost of development, of paying talented people who tend to live in expensive cities and demand competitive salaries.
While the deal was tough to do because the cost of development was higher than the market value of the project, the investment is catalytic.
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Despite the significant investment opportunities now available to gaming companies, the plummeting cost of development has created a highly competitive landscape, as players battle for mind share.
Exploits against information systems are particularly attractive to organized crime and state actors because of the richness of the target environment, the ease of exploitation, low cost of attack development, reasonably strong anonymity and difficulties in attribution, and the practical shortfalls of international legal frameworks and law enforcement regimes.
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Three recent developments at the FDA will further increase the time and cost of drug development.
If Fiat had no engineering partner to share the cost of vehicle development, fixing Alfa would be impossible, he said.
The trend towards more twin-engined aircraft drives up the cost of engine development, by boosting the need for power and reliability.
Also, genomics promises to slash the enormous cost of drug development.
"It is the second year of a budget crisis that has force it to devote most state funds to paying salaries and maintaining employment at the cost of both development and creating effective security forces, " Cordesman said.
Much of the development cost of a new drug is paid by the US market (yes, this is why you pay higher prices than most Europeans do) meaning that as long as drugs in, say, Greece are sold at above the marginal cost of production they still make a profit.
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The company does not have to pay for any additional cost for development of the project after the initial payment.
They convert these into the expected number of successful molecules, the expected costs at each stage of development, and the total cost of the process taking into account both successful and rejected molecules.
Another 22% of the cost increase has resulted from delays in development of the F135 engine that will power the fighter.
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An added 4% of cost increases result from growth in the scope of the development program at the behest of the government, and additional costs for war reserve spare parts.
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Companies also need to factor in the cost of voice and data, development, management and support.
Airbus, of course, has had some special help: soft loans, worth one-third of the development cost, from the German, French and British governments.
Almost all the cost of a drug is in the development and the complex hardware required to concoct the chemicals that become the medicine.
Dr Sindi also founded Sonoptix Technology, Cambridge, with Saudi Arabian seed funding, and led the development of a cost effective measurement technology for application in clinical diagnostics.
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But Bayer has refused to provide details on how much it invested in Nexavar's research and development, the cost of which was partly subsidised by the US government.
Advertising is but a fraction of the total development cost.
Teixeira details his disputes with a number of those European clubs on Facebook, claiming they failed to pay the true cost of training a player to the development club, based on FIFA's formula.
Prabhat Dayal, the chief of the Rajasthan Energy Development Agency, is optimistic about bringing down the cost of solar-generated electricity.
They stringently evaluated new development and weighed the cost of new investment against potential gains.
But, chiefly because of the high cost of operating in the Arctic, their development has been slow.
Mr Kikuchi believes that, if Japanese manufacturers are to compete against nimbler low-cost rivals in China, the development of future products will involve a mix of different technologies and services.
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We welcomed the United States announcement of the Innovation in Science through Partners and Regional Engagement (INSPIRE) initiative, which will foster cooperation between U.S. and ASEAN scientists in such areas as pandemic flu monitoring and prevention, development of low-cost vaccines, drug treatment monitoring, health innovation, and disease research.
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As I said, anything -- could go for something as repaying for the defraying of cost to move diagnostic and screening equipment or public health infrastructure, the purchase of and development of more antiviral medication, or as we get into the development of a seed stock for a vaccine.
The contract will fund development of a lower-cost lithium-ion phosphate battery technology with enhanced power, lifetime and durability for hybrid-electric vehicle applications.
Scottish Enterprise today issued research that suggests the hydrocarbon boys could deliver cost savings of up to 20% on renewable development, if only they paid enough attention to get involved.
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