According to Sony's latest financial report, most of the PlayStation sales came from digital media, especially the PlayStation Plus service.
Here's why the rumored $1 billion budget for Rockstar Games' upcoming open world action game, Grand Theft Auto VI, doesn't quite add up.
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Video game budgets will always be fictional, just like Hollywood movies. Unless there are receipts it's all speculation.
And Take Two has a marketing department with an already approved budget (just like studios in Hollywood).
I don't know where they get these numbers, absolutely NO games is spending anywhere near that amount on production even including marketing. If we're talking lifetime estimates for like a 10yr plan maybe, but even that would be a very vague projection. RDR2 at the time of release cost less that GTAV did and GTAV cost about 265mil with marketing being an average of about 200-300mil each.
I believe it's somewhere around there. Cod is 700m$ to make. I think GTA could be around there if not more. The insane level of detail in the trailer says it all.
Yeah I believe it's around there personally.
Doom: The Dark Ages has hit a peak of just under 31,000 concurrent players at launch, a figure much lower than both Doom and Doom: Eternal.
Could be affected by:
- A percentage of people will play this on GamePass which the last 2 games did not launch on.
- A percentage of players bought the Deluxe Edition which included early access, reducing the peak as players will start playing it on different days.
Neon Apex: Beyond the Limit combines frenetic futuristic racing with an anime art style, but the results are mixed.
Is convenient. Yes Playstion owners love to buy physical but that’s mostly for the hardcore, the casual including myself buys digital more.
I will buy physical for some games just to build my box art collection but it’s getting more rare now a days.
This is misleading.
The amount of games that release digital only increases so it is always skewed towards digital.
Sony themselves have reported their own games (Spider-Man God of War ect.) which have physical releases still sell more than half physically.
Majority of my PS library has become digital only, unfortunately.
Since they closed the GameStop closest to me a few years ago, I’ve been buying digital.
I’ve pretty much been doing mostly digital this gen.