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Game budgets are growing at insane rate. Graphic from State of the Industry report shows it perfectly
A report by the Epyllion Group showed how insanely production costs for popular game series have been rising over the past several years.
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Adrian Werner
January 24, 2025
Absurd budgets and sales of Call of Duty series. Activision spent $700 million to develop Black Ops: Cold War
Game budgets have put the movie industry to shame for years. Not even the most recent Call of Duty before the industry crisis cost Activision more than $700 million, and that's without marketing.
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Jacob Blazewicz
January 7, 2025
How much money did Star Citizen get in 2024? There's little drop, but amount remains huge
Fans remain eager to support Star Citizen, resulting in a near-record 2024, with more than $116 million contributed to the game over the past 12 months.
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Martin Bukowski
January 2, 2025
Concord's Failure Was Expected to Cost Sony Fortune
Sony quickly buried any chance of resurrecting Concord. Apparently, if recent rumors are to be believed, the Firewalk studio's game was costing the publisher too much anyway.
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Jacob Blazewicz
October 30, 2024
Layoffs Loom Over Developers of Concord. Employees Express Pessimism About Game's Return
Concord's director moved to a lower, supportive position, and the Firewalk Studio team has concerns about the future of both the project and the team.
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Jacob Blazewicz
September 20, 2024
Tekken Dev Comments on Criticism of Microtransactions. “If We Simply Do Nothing, the Game Will Simply Stop Running in a Few Months.”
The announcement of the addition of microtransactions to Tekken 8 infuriated players, but in turn these complaints annoyed Katsuhiro Harada. The father of the series hinted at how much game production costs have risen.
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Jacob Blazewicz
February 29, 2024
Cult Crazy Taxi Is Coming Back As AAA Game Thanks to SEGA
Crazy Taxi returns along with many of SEGA's other old series. And it may be developed as a high-budget title.
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Jacob Blazewicz
February 20, 2024
Palworld Development Cost Revealed -- It Supposed to Last Only a Year
Takuro Mizobe, one of the developers of Palworld and CEO of Pocket Pair studio, revealed how much money has been spent so far on the game's production. He also conveyed that the title is „far from complete.”.
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Maciej Gaffke
January 23, 2024
Star Citizen Received $650M From Players; $28M in November Alone
Fundraising for Star Citizen has already surpassed $650 million. However, the end of work is still nowhere in sight.
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Hubert Sledziewski
December 4, 2023
How Much Did CD Projekt Spend to Save Cyberpunk 2077? A Lot
The abysmal condition of Cyberpunk 2077 at launch meant that CD Projekt had to dig deep into its wallet to regain the trust of fans.
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Kamil Kleszyk
October 6, 2023
Which Had a Bigger Budget, Last of Us 2 or Horizon Forbidden West? Sony Spilled the Beans
The budgets for The Last of Us: Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West were not supposed to come out, but Sony did not make an effort with the redaction of court documents.
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Jacob Blazewicz
June 29, 2023
GTA 6 Most Expensive Game Ever? Latest Rumors Claim Insane Amount
Interesting rumors have surfaced online, suggesting the insane amount of money that the development of GTA 6 will consume.
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Adrian Werner
May 11, 2023
Forspoken Hailed as Expensive Failure; Ton of Money Sunk Into the Game
Information about the horrendous budget of the criticized Forspoken has hit the web. The gaming community reacted with surprise to the news of the huge development costs.
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Adam Celarek
March 16, 2023
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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is Biggest DLC in CD Projekt's History [UPDATE]
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty promises to be a major production. It is expected to be the largest expansion in the history of CD Projekt RED.
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Adrian Werner
January 21, 2023
"'PS5 Exclusive Game Budgets Will be $200 Million,' Predicts Sony Veteran
The former head of Sony Worldwide Studios predicts that budgets for PlayStation 5 exclusives will be in the order of $200 million for the biggest games.
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Adrian Werner
September 6, 2021
Genshin Impact Shows the Development Costs of a Live-service Game
The head of MiHoYo revealed how much it cost to create Genshin Impact. The Chinese studio spent 100 million dollars so far, and wants to invest twice this amount every subsequent year of the game's development.
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Paul Musiolik
February 24, 2021
Former PlayStation Exec: AAA Game Development Cost is Unsustainable
Shawn Layden, former president of SIE Worldwide Studios, who worked for Sony for 25 years, says the cost of creating games is becoming too high and something has to change in the industry. In his opinion, the solution could be to focus on shorter, more condensed games.
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Bart Swiatek
June 25, 2020
Star Citizen is One of the Most Expensive Games in History; $300 Million Raised
Over $300 million has already been raised for the space simulator Star Citizen. This makes the game one of the most expensive titles in the history of video games.
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Paul Wozniak
June 14, 2020
Remedy are Extremely Proud of Control
The CEO of Remedy Entertainment revealed that the development of Control cost less than 30 million Euros. The team is satisfied with the sales results so far and expects the game to perform well for a long time to come.
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Adrian Werner
December 5, 2019
Single player campaigns take up to 75% of the overall budget - says Cliff Bleszinski
PC Gamer had a chance to interview Cliff Bleszinski during PAX South and talk about his upcoming game LawBreakers. Apart from that, Bleszinski mentioned that single player campaigns cost a lot of money and that's why new shooters steer cleer of it.
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Adrian Werner
February 1, 2016