Zippy6 on 13 June 2026
| curl-6 said: Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million all the way back in 2020. Battlefield 6 reportedly cost "well north" of $400 million last year. Back in 2023, Spiderman 2 cost $315 million. These kind of insane budgets have sadly become commonplace, and it's not sustainable. |
Paying developers has got expensive AF.
Spiderman 2 cost:
- $117m in wages
- $41m in bonuses
- $28m in welfare and benefits
- $23m for external developers.
For the direct headcount (insomniac employees working only on SM2) they paid an average of $20k per month of development.
$20k.... Per developer each month, wtf.
Over a 5 year dev period they only averaged 135 internal developers solely working on SM2 but those developers cost them $157 million.
Their internal developers shared with other projects cost them $65m.
Last edited by Zippy6 - on 13 June 2026
