By looking at the numbers the only thing you can see is the truth about how little they asked for such a big project. $500k barely pays the salary of the team b

By looking at the numbers the only thing you can see is the truth about how little they asked for such a big project. $500k barely pays the salary of the team building the game. As hard as it is to do an indie game, people do it for way less than $200k... heck, many people do it for "free" on their own spare time. I don't see that happening on project aiming to build an SDK made for a specific game type that includes new hardware.