Actually I looked this up, apparently the hacker guy who hacked Rockstar saw that the budget for GTA6 is 2 billion dollars ... lol. Now granted that is supposed to cover all costs for the game's entire product cycle including DLC/online stuff ... but still ... 2 billion dollars?
I guess that would be close to a billion for the main game and then another billion for the extra content to come over years.
But like how in the world is a normal developer even a relatively big one supposed to compete with that? That's complete insanity.
And don't get me wrong, the game looks pretty, but not 1 billion dollars pretty, lol.
Starfield started with a budget of 200 million that ballooned into 400 million by the time it was finished.
It seems obvious to me that maxxing out a PS4 (as say Horizon FW does) is insanely expensive to begin with, but going past that becomes obscenely expensive. 100 million dollars for a game should be an enormous budget but its becoming basically nothing.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 04 March 2024
