Problems with Huge AAA Gaming Projects - Former Ubisoft Dev Speaks

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barneystinson69 said:

ReimTime said:

 

GTA5 also had a ridiculous advertising budget AFAIK, but that's beside the point. CDPR proved it was possible indeed. Now what do you think CDPR did correctly that Ubisoft has failed to accomplish?

Well I didn't look much into it, but they were an efficent team, and I think most of the development was done in Warsaw itself. Also, game development was 3 years instead of 5 for GTA 5 (it shouldn't take that long), and the team was less than 1/2 the size.

Apparently the development budget was 306 million Zloty, which is approximately 100 million USD. I agree with your points. was the development only three  years though? That would be very efficient for what they accomplished. I mean it was delayed for 7 months are so, but if that still puts it in the ~3 year window that's something to be admired