Horizon budget is at least 45 million Euro, 250 dev team

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Mummelmann said:

Turkish said:
Interesting that GG was able to make a game on a scale of Witcher 3 with less people and a smaller budget! I also like that Horizon has much more variety in environments, from snowey mountains to forests to grand canyon type areas. W3 felt almost the same the whole game until Blood and Wine.

A couple of things I need to correct and/or remind you of here:

1: The Witcher 3 was a multiplatform title being developers simultaneously, whereas Horizon is exclusive to PS4.

2: The development budget was nowhere near 81 million dollars, it was reportedly around 32-33 million dollars and the bigger figures include promotional budgets and marketing. TW3 had a massive marketing push in all major territories.
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/how-much-did-the-witcher-3-cost
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1059873

3: The Witcher 3 is a lot more detailed, the sidequests are immense and varied, the main story is a lot longer, the world is jam packed with content, NPC's and events and map is colossal. Writing is miles better, music as well, skill system along with magic has a lot more depth and variation, it has a slew of effects enabled or available for PC users. Hell, look at the size of Novigrad alone, that city is near as big as some entire games with all its underground passages and districts! In Horizon, I've yet to find a single hut or house that I could open and enter, there are practically no interiors designed for it besides dungeons, compare that to TW3 and Skyrim, for instance. I think I spent 95 hours on The Witcher 3 before the expansion packs came out, it's an immense game and it plays a lot more like a full fledged RPG designed in such a way that your choices and actions actually have a huge impact on the world and the story. Horizon is a great open world ARPG but it doesn't hold a candle to TW3 is sheer scope, variation and epicness.

A waste of time. All you needed to post was this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnI_mvp2fjc