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JEMC said:
StarCitizen crowfunding is insane. $63million and rising.

Not many games have that budget in total and much, much less get it without counting the marketing costs.

I think you would actually be surprised. $50-60m is pretty typical for a AAA game. Take Darksiders 2 for example that had a production budget of $50m and that is hardly on the high end of the scale. Something like Assassin's Creed Unity is likely pushing $200m, what with a 4 year dev cycle and pushing almost a thousand devs at peak.

First of all, I've said games, not AAA games. After all, not everybody makes AAA games. And then I have to wonder how much of those $50m for Darksiders 2 was for marketing.

Oh, and if Unity is really a $200m game, Ubisoft won't last long among us. That's a ridiculously high amount for such a broken game. Heck, CoD: Modern Warfare 2 had a total budget of $200m and of those "only" $40m-$50m went for the actual development of the game (source: here) and that was for a franchise that sells a lot more than Assassin's Creed does.