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Anybody know how much Heavy Rain cost to make? I looks and feels uber expensive!



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megaman79 said:
And GTA4 is also, coincidently, the best reviewed game ever.

What a surprise.

Those reviewers aren't cheap.

 



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NJ5 said:
megaman79 said:
And GTA4 is also, coincidently, the best reviewed game ever.

What a surprise.

Those reviewers aren't cheap.

 


I agree



It's a very good list but there's a lot of games missing (due to lack of public info):

CoD MW2 ~ $50 million (my estimate, based on some stuff I read on internet about it)
Assassin's Creed 1 ~$60 mill at least (Ubisoft's Montreal dev team is huge)
Assassin's Creed 2 about the same as the original, maybe a little more
Final Fantasy 13 - I don't know but should be well over $60 mill
Red Dead Redemption - $50 million, $60 mill? I have no idea.
World of Wacraft +$50 mill
Starcraft II +$50 mill
Diablo 3 +$50 mill
Warhammer Online +$50 mill

Also games like Resident Evil 5, Far Cry 2, Splinter Cell Conviction and God of War 3 probably have budgets in the $40-50 million ballpark.



some of these games gained a lot of money to their companies so it was alright for them.too human is the most disapointing for me because i had huge hopes for the game because it came from a great company and the end result was disapointing.



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It's a shame we spend hundreds of millions of dollars just to satisfy our need for eye candy.



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dtewi said:
It's a shame we spend hundreds of millions of dollars just to satisfy our need for eye candy.


Your talking about games right?



oldschoolfool said:
dtewi said:
It's a shame we spend hundreds of millions of dollars just to satisfy our need for eye candy.


Your talking about games right?

Well, not just games.



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# Grand Theft Auto IV - $100 million [1]
# Shenmue - $70 million [2]
# Too Human - $80-100 million
# Tom Clancy - $50 million [3]
# Metal Gear Solid 4 - $50-$70 million (rumor)
# Halo 3 - over $30M, about $60M including promotional costs
# Killzone 2 - ~$40-$60M [4][5][6]
# APB MMO - $50 million budget [7]
# Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - $40-50 million [8]
# Final Fantasy XII: $35 Million
# Tom Clancy MMO - $50 million budget [9]
# Final Fantasy IX - $40M [10]
# Stranglehold - $30m [11]
# Assassin's Creed 2 - $24m [12]
# Crysis - $22m [13]
# Assassin's Creed - $20m [14]
# Lost Planet - $20m to develop, $20m to promote [15]
# Crackdown - $20 million [16]
# Ghostbusters - $15-$20 million[17]
# Half-Life episodes - $12 million each [18]
# Red Steel - $12 million [19]



# Sam & Max episode 1 - $400,000 [20]
# Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode 1 - $1 million and 18 months of development [21]
# World of Goo - $96,000 for development[22]

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Most_expensive_video_games

I really don't know where they get these numbers though.
# Braid - 200K [23]
# Left 4 Dead - marketing cost = $10 million [



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