Andromeda cost 40 million, TW3 cost 32 million... What went wrong?

You do know 32 million dollars goes further in Poland, yes? Like a lot further.
You do know they have a different currency? It's called the zloty.

Wait - you do know it's a sovereign country and not part of the United States?

Also: not this fucking shit again. Give it a rest.

The Witcher 3's budget was a lot higher than that.

And the difference was that CDPR had no timetable - whenever the game was done, they made their launch window. No publisher pressure.

Different pressures on Bioware. A much more tighter deadline.

Bioware clearly effed up in development somewhere which means they couldn't meet deadline.

Won't know unless bioware says anything.

If I go by just my speculation:

Montreal was made up of a lot of newbies with little experience, so pair that up with learning the frostbite 3 engine (Montreal didn't make inquisition as an fyi)and working it with the new Xbox one and you have people pretty much experimenting for some time till they finally have their plan laid out on what they want to do. I'd wager with CDreds experience and such they wasted less time experimenting and just built up from their. Andromeda also had much of biowares staff leave (Casey Hudson being one of the big names to go) however I personally dislike seeing the excuse of people leaving as that's just a natural part of the industry, people will leave, even during the development process of a game where sometimes things have to be redone due to new vision from the guy taking over.

If you ever look into game development, you'll see a lot of concept art and such on what they wanted to try, things they tinkered with, etc etc. this too could be part of why the game underachieved as Montreal possibly looked into things to much, got so far in and had to cut/redo things as they realized their goals were to ambitious. The game was delayed after all which just shows they weren't ready at the time, you then had lack of videos of the game till launch which led to speculation that it still wasn't ready and here we are now. Bad animations, various glitches/bugs, and down grades to certain features that were hyped up to launch along with a day one patch.

I honestly wonder what andromeda would've been had Edmonton done it, they had experience with the originals but nevertheless they too still would have to learn the engine (if they were making Andromeda they wouldn't be touching dragon age inquisition)and such but they have the experience at least.

The funny part is not OP missing the point, its the fact that the point is actually very well explained in the first link he provided.

(This is with regard to cost of developer time in different countries)

Yeah pretty much most of this.

To say it's $32 million is twisting facts.

Actually no it's not, try reading next time.
www.usgamer.net/articles/how-much-did-the-witcher-3-cost

I'm beginning to think some people that don't have an issue with the dialogue in Andromeda... don't actually read it and skim through it.

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The game isn't as bad as some people are making it out to be

Does it have FUGLY Presets, yes. They remind me of the Quanari presets in DA:I. ICK

Does it have copy and paste NPC Asari? Yes

Are the PC and NPC's eyes dead to the world? Yes

Are some of the animations are bit funky? Yes

Is the ending as FUBAR as "The Lead director" of ME3's attempted Artistic whatever? NO

Does it have a lot of replay ability? Maybe for some maybe not for others

I mean most of the p[eople on the old forums were screaming for a return to ME1, you people should be careful what you wish for

Almost nothing went wrong. This could end up being the better of the two games and its certainly the better of the two RPGs.

The value of the dollar and cost of living in different countries. In Poland $32 million USD is a truckload of money. In Canada, not quite so much.

So, nothing wrong.

The major difference I think would be that CDPR has a far more experience team of developers who has probably been working on the Witcher series for a very long time.

I still don't think you can read.  This just lists the $81 million without breaking it down into production / marketing budgets, which was 32/35 and then +14 for expansions.  You must love the dialogue in Andromeda!  Skip skip skip, back to pew pew pew!!

Did you watch the video breakdown? Subtitles aren't exactly accurate and I personally can't speak Polish, but despite the breakdown you mention the entire production costs for the game are $81 million. It also doesn't matter how much time in production is used, full on development includes marketing and all that as well. And that is not taking into account location and mileage of Polish and Canadian currencies, as well as government backing and personal spending as well, all of which you conveniently gloss over in your first post.

Saying it's cost is $32 million is disingenuous to the fact of the entire game's budget. You also have not answered my second question, is the $40 million total cost including marketing or no?

Don't waste my time with your juvenile shit, I don't have the patience to teach someone how basic economics works right now.