You may recall that Capcom developers have spoken a few times about Dragon’s Dogma — their upcoming medieval-’em-up with climbable creatures and a high-end Monster Hunter feel — being a pretty expensive game to develop.
There was the time they said that the team working on it is the biggest within Capcom, at around 150 members. And the time they said games like this “cost a ton of money” and that’s why we don’t see more of them from Japanese developers. Sites like Kotaku have even mentioned rumors that this is Capcom’s most expensive game to date.