“Certain” AAA IP Needs 10 Million Copies to Break Even says

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superchunk said:

BeElite said:

superchunk said:
I'm telling you. Its watch_dogs.

Multplatform to the n-th degree.
Whole new engine.
Extremely defined open-world where AI is unique to everything. Far more than GTA.

if you count the cost of developing the game engine maybe, but why would any one be stupid enougth to factor that cost into a single game.

Why would any game cost that much without including the game engine?

This engine was built for this game. Sure it will likely be used on future games, but this is what it was built for.

I highly doubt it.

Ubisoft results in the last few years would have been impacted by this kind of budget ( we're talking of hiding something like 300 million$ of development cost in the last few years...).

 

Most likely Cliff is talking out of his ass like he has done a lot recently....

The most expensive game ever developed ( if you do not account for inflation) is Star Wars the old republic with a development budget of around 150-200 million$.

I'm pretty sure that if there was a game around there costing 300 million$ in development we would have heard about it ( it would be suicidal for any publicly traded company to invest that much in a game and hide it from investors...)