Major Publishers Report AAA Games Can Cost Over a Billion to Make

[Gamernyc78]

Major Publishers Report AAA Franchises Can Cost Over a Billion to Make - IGN

A report released alongside the CMA's decision to block the Microsoft Activision Blizzard acquisition reveals the demanding costs behind modern AAA game development, which can surpass $1 billion over a franchise.

www.ign.com

 

[Deleted member 417]

I call bullshit. IF they are costing that much, then it is bloat and nothing more.

 

[Gediminas]

Major Publishers Report AAA Franchises Can Cost Over a Billion to Make - IGN

A report released alongside the CMA's decision to block the Microsoft Activision Blizzard acquisition reveals the demanding costs behind modern AAA game development, which can surpass $1 billion over a franchise.

www.ign.com

Halo costed over 500M.
So if you want to reach Sony quality, no wonder they need 1B

 

[Eternal_Wings]

Halo costed over 500M.
So if you want to reach Sony quality, no wonder they need 1B

And despite that huge budget it’s still mid as hell.

 

[SLB1904]

Bulshit. Maybe gta 6. Anything else I doubt

 

[Zzero]

I mean, if you spend it poorly, with tons of crunch OT and training costs, 100 million into advertising plus the bloat of chasing photorealism, then yeah, maybe. Then random Nintendo projects outsell you 3 to 1.

 

[Gamernyc78]

Halo costed over 500M.
So if you want to reach Sony quality, no wonder they need 1B

That was definitely mismanagement because no way that game cost that much no matter what Microsoft stated. They are full of shit!

 

[Old Gamer]

They are expensive, but if you are dumping over 1 billion on one game, something is very wrong with your management.

 

[Nhomnhom]

RDR2 cost like 500m an it shows, a 1 billion game would need to be something out of this world.

 

[kyliethicc]

even if they claim a game took like 10 years to make and they had like 500 people on the project every year... thats like maybe 500 million in salary cost over a decade.

so nah, doubt it

 

[Cool hand luke]

They can just make their budget back by releasing it for free on Gamepass!

 

[AshHunter216]

There's no way

 

[Swift_Star]

doubt it

 

[riesgoyfortuna]

As a exdev with a lot of friends on the industry,this is bullshit

 

[anonpuffs]

Gta6 is the only game i can see doing this, it's been in dev for 10 years at this point.

Maybe star citizen but that's more of a scam than a game

 

[Wraith Phantom]

That was definitely mismanagement because no way that game cost that much no matter what Microsoft stated. They are full of shit!

100 million over 5 years then marketing another 100. 600 million

 

[Yurinka]

Halo costed over 500M.
So if you want to reach Sony quality, no wonder they need 1B

Imagine a game like this but being successful so they give it half a dozen years more of post launch content.

 

[Yurinka]

even if they claim a game took like 10 years to make and they had like 500 people on the project every year... thats like maybe 500 million in salary cost over a decade.

so nah, doubt it

The average AAA has 2000-3000 or more working on it, not 500. And this is for the already published, the ones under development to take advantage of next gen very likely will be much more expensive.

And around half or more of the cost of AAA games is the marketing part (ads etc). We also have to consider that many AAA like the Ubi ones keep receiving post launch content for many years, and this is more costs