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

KratosLives 9 hours ago
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.



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Kyuu 8 hours ago
KratosLives said:
curl-6 said:

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.

GamePass is losing millions of subs. No it doesn't cover the costs, because E-Day isn't the only game on it or affected by it. GamePass isn't generating enough revenue to make up for the decline in software sales or the money MS has to pay to secure day 1 third party support. It isn't some magical stream of infinite wealth that covers everything. Why do you think COD was removed from their day 1 program? It's because it was immediately clear to them that the temporary increase in subs wasn't worth the loss in sales.

The service is experiencing downgrades and isn't generating anywhere near as much as it needs to justify the damage it inflicts on other segments. A reminder that Microsoft expected 77 million GP subs by 2026. Holy delulus.



curl-6 4 hours ago

Beaten to it by Kyuu who put it better than I think I could, but Gamepass isn't a saviour here. No way Gears brought in enough Gamepass cash to justify a budget of half a billion dollars.