007 First Light took 7 years and $200 million to make; sold 1.5m in its first 24 hours

[Kyuu]

curl-6 said:

Mar1217 said:

I wonder if the IP licensing right are also evaluated into the development cost here ? Prolly cost them a fair penny

Yeah I imagine the Bond license wasn't cheap.

Darwinianevolution said:

Genuinely puzzled at the 7 years development cycle. I wonder how much of that was due to licensing issues.

AAA games just take forever in general these days, 5+ years has been the norm this gen.

I don't know if I would call this the norm. If it's the norm then it's down to poor management and priorities.

Capcom, FromSoftware, Insomniac, and Monolith are very productive. Capcom is way better now than they were in the PS360 days, are they even the same company?

Square's Hamaguchi team is only taking 3 years to develop a new Final Fantasy 7 "remake" with large scale, tons of content, and excellent production values. Not to mention Revelation is releasing on all platforms simultaneously.

Inefficient AAA developers need to take notes.