Several informations from Games Freak projects (mainly Pokemon) were leaked today

[Zippy6]

Shikamo said:

Zippy6 said:

The leaked budgets for these games is a joke though.

$13m for Pokemon Legends Z-A
$20m for Pokemon Wind/Waves

No wonder Z-A looks like crap. You have games that will gross $1 Billion and you're spending only $13m developing them... unreal.

Don't get me wrong, low budgets is an admirable thing, if the game doesn't suffer for it, which Pokemon clearly has the whole Switch generation.

They will spend a lot with Marketing (maybe something like $100-200m), but they will make money with Pokemon Go, Cards, etc... so they dont have excuse.

Yeah I imagine marketing budget is up there, highest modern game marketing budget I can find is Cyberpunk which spent $142 Million.

It is wild how little they are spending on development. Lords of the Fallen for example, a game I'm not even sure I would call AAA, spent $42 million on development. Over triple Pokemon Legends Z-A.

There are many games from over 2 decades ago that had MUCH more money put into their creation than Pokemon, one of the biggest franchises in the world.

Pokemon is in the top 5% of AAA game sales and probably in the bottom 5% of AAA development budgets.