Tom Henderson - "Gears of War budget is insane. I've heard upwards of 400 Million dollars"

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twintail said:

Is this surprising?

What's surprising is that AAA publishers are still not going the way of the dodo despite regularly coming with such clearly unsustainable budgets.

Leynos said:

Peppridge Farm Remembers when Shenmue had the largest budget of all time at $70 million. Phantasmagoria at $4 million

I remember a time when selling 30k copies of a game made it a smash hit, like Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion for instance...