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Saber Interactive CEO says Saints Row had to die because the games were too expensive: "The days of throwing money at games other than the GTAs of the world is over" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The best source I could find on this was IGN and they claim a $100 million budget for BG3.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That is at least plausible, even though they don't mention a specific source so it's impossible to know if it's accurate and whether or not it includes marketing or just development.

But however you want to cut it, nine figures is absolutely triple A territory. I was a well grown man when we were scandalized at games starting to break 50 mill during the PS3 era.

That said, I don't believe the numbers in the billions being quoted for some games are accurate, either. At the very least people are being quoted the entire studio overhead, not just the cost of the game, and in some cases almost certainly just reporting incorrect numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I remember for Destiny 1 there was a figure of roughly 1 billion thrown around. That figure included like 8 years of server costs and future development costs for expansions, which ended up also including Destiny 2. Probably a similar situation for other games nearing that total.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Yep, that tracks. Probably some people mixing up how much funding a studio was raising with the budget of the game's production.