Videogame budgets through the years..

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RolStoppable said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

It doesn't seem like graphical fidelity is a huge factor... Gears cost half as much as Lost Planet, Crisis cost less than Crackdown. Beyond marketing, the number of developers, and time spent on the project, is there anything else that significantly influences the budget?

That's because Epic Games didn't factor in the costs for creating their Unreal Engine 3 that Gears of War ran on. The same should hold true for Crytek and Crysis. The creation/licensing of an engine doesn't come cheap.

true.. the UE3 is listed at 40 million.. I'm guessing the half life 2 number is with the creation of the enigine..