| Ryuu96 said: More Fucked Redactions!
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Those budgets are freaking ridiculous. $200m+ for development alone, plus the marketing budget on each. Sony will have been lucky to have just barely broke even on TLOU 2 and Horizon: FW may have even lost them some money, as it's full price sales were alot lower than TLOU 2's were, while the budget was nearly as high.
I'm glad Xbox/Bethesda seem to use a lower budget on most of their AAA exclusives, save for a few more expensive outliers like Halo Infinite and Starfield. Your average Arkane or Obsidian AAA is likely coming in below $100m on development budget, and probably sub $150m for development + marketing combined. We just heard recently that the AAA Xbox ordered from People Can Fly has a budget of just $50m, though they are in Poland, where game development pay is quite low.
