How much time does QA generally take for a big game?i don't know games, but for my software QA is around 40 percent of the R&D budget.
Ideally QA is time and a half. For IT. For games? I can't say for sure. Just going by hearsay, I would imagine a year in a 3 year dev cycle. Final polish I would imagine is 6 months. I think Killzone Shadowfall was something like that. They had finished the game 6 months before release it I recall. They spent the rest of the time polishing.QA starts on day 1,.. not just the final months of hardening.
