noname2200 on 17 February 2009
| theRepublic said: @jammy2211 That $10 million figure for Gears of War is a bit misleading. It does not include the cost of the Unreal Engine 3. Most developers would have to license it or develop their own engine, but since Epic owns UE3, they didn't have to pay for it. I'm also going to guess that it was much easier for them to use the engine since they should know it inside and out. |
You can also add to this the fact that large chunks of the work on the game, including some of the most labor-intensive portions, were outsourced to China. So unless other companies have those two advantages as well, I don't think we'll see any more AAA console games with such a low budget anytime soon, not even on the Wii.
