As the video game industry is growing and growing so is the cost of developing video games as gamers expectations increase and here are the top 17 most expensive video games to develop to date.
Gravemaster writes: "Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire is a successful franchise, but it hasn’t had much luck when it comes to video games. Many were released, but only the one from Telltale games received more or less recognition and it was cancelled after one season anyway. Now, we have news of another Game of Thrones game in development."
Maybe that's what Larian is working on? Or even better, an isometric Witcher CRPG like BG3, a man can dream.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
- Xbox Wire - Mark your calendars! The Xbox Games Showcase followed by [REDACTED] Direct airs June 9. More info inside.
For a brief moment I thought we might get a whole Direct for Gears 6 - seems like it's COD though!
Yeah in most of the cases we know the marketing budget trumps the development costs. Modern Warefare 2's was $200 million in marketing compared to $50 million to develop. That's insane!
Shenmue didnt cost 70, it was 47. This has been stated by Yu Suzuki himself.
Horizon Zero Dawn was probably also pretty costly to develop. And GT Sport, considering how many years it took to get released.
Rockstar games cost a lot. They spare no expense. I understand for GTA, but overv$100 million even on Max Payne, and Red Dead?
New Vegas - $9 million to development - $45 million to marketing.