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Soundwave on 12 June 2024
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

No actually he/she is wrong, from the Sony data leak we can see what say ... a $500 million budget for example would do to Spider-Man's net profit ... it would wipe it out entirely. At 350 mill you would lose over 65% of the profit margin. That's using their own data, not something I created or opined on. 

To say "well that's not a valid concern, that's just a company being greedy" is just blatantly stupid. It's company greed to be concerned when a budget range chops 2/3rds of your profit margin off? Like what fantasy land is this, any business owner even someone who owned a ice cream corner shop would be very concerned about 2/3rds of their profit margin going down the toilet all of the sudden. 

That's not "oh well he just has a different opinion", the leak tells us what Sony really thinks. 

We don't why spiderman 2 costs so much though. you are assuming it's graphics when horizon forbidden west is bigger and for most part people think it looks better graphically. like i said earlier many games are pushing graphics at the same level as spiderman 2 are they all gonna cost 240-340 million

I believe it is in the documentation though (there's a ton of it, so it's a dense read) ... in fact one thing we learn from the Sony leak is internally at Sony and Insomniac there is a lot of hand wringing and worry about why Spider-Man 2 costing 3x more in budget due to graphics. 

In fact they even had a slide where Insomniac themselves states essentially this

"We spent 3x the budget from S1 to S2 but we doubt the general consumer can even tell the difference". 

I'm not saying graphics can't get better, but the idea that we can double/triple from here I think is crazy talk. We are reaching the breaking point when even Sony is worried. 

GTA6 can be all that it is, but that's also a 2 billion dollar game, 1 billion at least on the budget of the game itself ... if that's the future of the industry, that's just untenable. You would need to sell like 70-80 million copies before you start seeing a return on investment. I'm not gonna lie either like it looks good but especially outside of the scripted cutscene sequences, I'm not sure if I think it looks like 1 billion dollars good. If that's what 1 billion gets you, photoreal is what? 10x that?