Hell yeah!

You can make 3 endurance race cars for 1.2M, so it really should be less pricey, I alway reckoned it was between 500K/800K.

WOW. I thought it would be expensive, but that's just crazy. From what I've heard and seen it's fantastic tech though, so that's far from unreasonable.

How much the other renowned engines cost? Then we can say whether it is too much or not...

How much is UE ?

The base price of UE3 has never been officially disclosed or leaked as far as I know.

We don't know, but I would imagine a hell of a lot cheaper than cryengine 3 since many devs that don't have super rich publishers can afford it. I'd say 100k tops, but I really don't know.

Edit: Just found out 100k is a really, really bad estimate xD It's probably much more expensive

At the start of the generation UE2 still cost (And maybe still does, I'll have to do some research) 250K, and another 50K per additional platform, so I have to say 100K is probably way way too low of an estimate. ; -)

whoa really? These are way more expensive than I thought

Yeah from what I can gather from old research UE2 started at 750K and is ~now 250K-300K (Although I don't think Epic plans on licensing it out much anymore, they've removed it mostly from their technology site).

And UE3 has done quite a bit of advancement since it first released, so I do reckon it too be "cheaper" than CE3, but still above the ~500K mark.

OT:

"Rumor" from last year stated CE3 cost 1.8M to license, so either:

A: That was bunk

B: This is bunk

C: They dropped 600K

D: Perhaps they have different licensing options

Well it sounds expensive that's for sure.