Marketing. For films and GTA/COD it's often larger than the production budget. This won't be that high but as an AAA game it'll still be high.

Publishing expenses, such as localisation, sales, management, etc.

And external consultants for the very high tech engine and cutscene production.

And finally, if you read the interviews with RED, that was in terrible conditions, working hours and low salaries even for Poland. I imagine the staff were substantially better treated in cali even after wage differences.

As long as it's a good game, I don't mind it being short, as long as it's longer than like, 3-4 hours, since that's way too short... let's say 6ish hours, and if it has some sort of multiplayer or replayability, it'll be fine... I'm basically treating this as another sort of Uncharted game, well, in a sense anyway, it seems like it could be a very cinematic game that looks great to watch :)

 "games are more expensive than ever," which is demonstrably false. There's plenty of things worth complaining about when it comes to video games, but current prices aren't one of them.

but yeah… graphic fidelity definitely exceeds the trailer,”