Microsoft has 14 1st Party Games In Development

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Fei-Hung said:

daredevil.shark said:
Didn't they said they will invest $1 Billion in games in Xbox One reveal? Given their track record it's hard to believe. Plus Microsoft first party studios is the weakest among big three.

A billion sounds like a lot, but then you realise AAA games can cost anything from $50-250 million. 

 

I don't think games like:

 

Ryse, Halo5, Quantum Break, TF, RotTR, Gears, Forza's and Scalebound come cheap. 

 

Buying or the Gears franchise alone must have cost a pretty penny let alone making the game, and if you just count costs for making the game or buying a product (timed or full exclusive), not marketing, you are still looking at over a billion in costs if Ryse, Halo 5, Gears and one Forza cost a $100mil each. 

There was a thread in neogaf which indicated gears of war IP ownership costed $70 to $100 million and rise of the tomb raider deal was $40 to $50 million. And given the number of AAA games from Microsoft it hadn't surpassed $1 Billion yet. Because if it's above $1 Billion then their biggest competitor might have spent $3 to $4 Billion in games. It's impossible.