Development costs - PS2 vs. Gamecube

It seams as though the PS2 gets about five games for every one that arrives on the Gamecube. People on different boards have said that this is because nintendo only allows 'quality' games to come out on its systems, while as Sony doesn't realy care what does. Well today I was looking at some different N-fan type sites (looking for a trailer to the upcomming 'Baten Kaitos' game) and came across an article that stated the development costs for gamecube on accident. And im not sure if this is true or not, but acording to the article nintendo charges 72 million yen ($603,000), while developing on PS2 costs 14 million yen ($117,000). Can anyone confirm this to be fact? I don't think a nintendo site would try to make the cube sound bad, but at the same time I have to wonder why Nintendo would be so stupid as to charge such a high price for developing on its system.
 
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