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SvennoJ on 04 March 2024
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Soundwave said:

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. 

Insane budget. Looking at movies, Star Wars The Force Awakens sits on top with half a billion for budget.
GTA6 will make it back over time, GTA5 sold 195 million copies! But it's clear GTA6 will be milked like GTA5 for the next decade at least. GTA5 came out in 2013. GTA5 cost 265 million and generated close to 8 billion in revenue.

Almost half the budget goes into marketing (75% to 100% of the game budget), nearly a billion dollar marketing campaign seems a bit much!