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CDiablo on 31 August 2008

What about Duke Nukem Forever? That game has ben in development since 07'.



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ItsaMii on 31 August 2008

Capcom said that Dead Rising costs were above 50 million (marketing included).



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chenguo4 on 31 August 2008

Wait, so FF IX is on the list but X isn't? Consider that with X the developers were dealing with a new system that required a learning curve and better graphics, and on top of that extensive voice acting, that doesn't seem to add up.




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Hephaestos on 31 August 2008

1. FF games cost a lot because of the quality of the CGI.... which is also why square did a FF movie, because they had invested heavily in the technology.... of course, now it's affordable to have decent CGI, but in 2000 it was still expensive.


2. How is #2 70M and #3 80M-100M ?????



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Gilgamesh on 31 August 2008

Now I see why everyone's making such a big deal about too human



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el_rika on 31 August 2008

The list is pure BS.
I don't doubt for a minute that MGS4 and GTA4 are the most expensive games ever made, and Shemnue was in Giuness Book 'till GTA4's budget was disclosed, but the rest are just pure speculations.

There's no way Too Human for example hd this kind of bugdet, unless we are talking about the entire trilogy (and even then it is very far fetched) or the lowest salary was 50k a week for the toilet cleaner.



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FaRmLaNd on 31 August 2008

I read somewhere that it cost Blizzard around 50 million to develop world of warcraft. Take into account developments of expansions, content upgrades and the sheer server maintenance and help centre costs etc its most assuredly the most expensive game ever made (and the most profitable lol).



FinalEvangelion on 01 September 2008

I thought FF7 cost $45 million to make. FF9 and MGS4 were worth every penny IMO. Never Played Shenmue.

FF 13 must be approaching $75 million.



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Ronster316 on 01 September 2008

Shenmue is worth every penny.......... shame on ANYBODY who has not played the masterpeice that is the MIGHTY Shenmue



megaman79 on 01 September 2008

That including marketing? Thats pretty cheap comparable to James Cameron Titanic, T2 budgets.

GTA 4 was drinking budget for all those dudes running round new york scanning everything right?



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