kiefer23 said:
outlawauron said:
kiefer23 said:
Cypher1980 said:
Guys not all the POS take goes back to the DEV
For instance in the UK Games are 40 GBP on average. But the shop gets them for around 32 GBP.
Distribution and packaging 5 GBP.
Royalties to medium provider 5 GBP.
So the 22 GBP or half of the games POS take is all that makes it back to the DEV.
A game costing 22 million to make therefore must sell a million to break even. |
Not many games ever hit GBP22 million.
Gears of War 1 only cost $10 million. I would assume its quite cheap though because the engine is already made etc etc.
Halo 3 cost a rumored $30 million. Payed off for Microsoft since they have made around half a billion dollars off of it.
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This still makes me laugh! 
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What that Gears of War cost Microsoft/Epic the kind of money you find hidden in the back of your sofa?
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No, the game cost more than that. They did not include the years of development that went to creating an engine for Gears of War. (Unreal Engine 3) That engine likely cost them more than $10 million. However, this is counterbalanced because the engine was reused and sold to many developers.
