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

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curl-6 said:

KratosLives said:

It's the best game I've played on xbox. There are quite a few large set pieces in the game, and you can definitely see big budget in it. Though I wish i had a series x instead of s. The graphics are definitely hindered on this system. Having a game on this scale run on series s makes it look like a mid last gen game. But what stands out is the number of enemies and the animation of the bigger beast mutants that move around. I haven't played gears of war 2 or 3, but this is better than the gears 1 remake

Yeah that's the tragedy of it, I've heard the game itself is good, and I'll definitely play it someday. They just never should have saddled a series like this with a budget so big, it should have been obvious from the start that it wouldn't recoup its costs.

Wasn't it expected not to sell much because it's on gamepass?  You'd think the amount they make from gamepass annually would easily cover the costs.