What's the cost of making a video game?

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Squilliam on 20 September 2008

The good thing about UE3 is that most of the costs are royalties based off revenue. So if the game bombs then you don't lose too much money compared to spending the money yourself on an engine. Its a great way for a developer to get a unique/risky concept into production without risking as much on a potential failure.

Tease.

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PredictSales1337 on 21 September 2008

Well, Grand Theft Auto costed more than $100 million to make, but they got $310 million on day 1 and $500 million one week one, so...

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DirtyP2002 on 21 September 2008

c0rd said:

Your Wii number may be on the mark, but the HD titles are way too much. Here's a graph from Factor 5, should give you an idea:

Some really high budget games will go far above, like GTA4 or MGS4, but those don't really count - hell, Shenmue cost something like $50mil to make, and that was on the Dreamcast.

Am I the only one, who doesn't get this? Okay the average budget is given in ( ). But what is the meaning of the numbers on the left, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120?

Would be nice, if somebody could explain it to me.

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Senrii on 21 September 2008

I think that's the amount of people who worked for the game.

Anyone knows how much Super Mario Galaxy costed? =D
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mowe on 21 September 2008

DirtyP2002 said:

c0rd said:

Your Wii number may be on the mark, but the HD titles are way too much. Here's a graph from Factor 5, should give you an idea:

Some really high budget games will go far above, like GTA4 or MGS4, but those don't really count - hell, Shenmue cost something like $50mil to make, and that was on the Dreamcast.

Am I the only one, who doesn't get this? Okay the average budget is given in ( ). But what is the meaning of the numbers on the left, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120?

Would be nice, if somebody could explain it to me.

I think the number on the left is team size....

# of games above 75 on Metacritic (including downloadable):

360: 241 DS: 144

PS3: 152 PSP: 126

Wii: 85

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izaaz101 on 21 September 2008

DirtyP2002 said:

c0rd said:

Your Wii number may be on the mark, but the HD titles are way too much. Here's a graph from Factor 5, should give you an idea:

Some really high budget games will go far above, like GTA4 or MGS4, but those don't really count - hell, Shenmue cost something like $50mil to make, and that was on the Dreamcast.

Am I the only one, who doesn't get this? Okay the average budget is given in ( ). But what is the meaning of the numbers on the left, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120?

Would be nice, if somebody could explain it to me.

Read the title of the graph, lol.