Think Movies are Expensive to Make? Games Are!

[exfileme]

Most games today have Hollywood movie budgets.

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[Abrahm]

It's amazing the the price to make a game has gone up so much, yet the overall quality and complexity of game play has gone down. I think there is too much money sunk into marketing these days.

 

[eklipz330]

Duke Nukem Forever? infinite million

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

That guy had better give us a shenmue III. The ending of II was almost as bad as "I'm here to finish the fight"

 

[Guest]

11 ?

 

[matchboxmatt]

[citation][nom]Abrahm[/nom]It's amazing the the price to make a game has gone up so much, yet the overall quality and complexity of game play has gone down. I think there is too much money sunk into marketing these days.[/citation]
Hahahahah, what!? I'm sorry, but that's seriously the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Go back and play the run-of-the-mill SNES game in the 90s, and then play a run-of-the-mill PC game released today. Our standards are a lot higher than they used to be.

 

[cobra5000]

+1 machboxmatt

 

[ukcal]

All the more reason, I feel, for companies to give us incentives to buy games and not torrent them instead. Note i said 'incentives', not DRM.

 

[tayb]

Grand Theft Auto IV had over $500 million in revenue after just one week of being on sale. Halo 3 had $174 million in revenue 24 hours after hitting the streets. Am I supposed to be sympathetic because of high development costs when these companies are making triple their investment in the first 24 hours of release? I understand that not all of the revenue goes to the developers but even if just 20% of it goes back to the developers GTA4 was raking in pure profit after week 1.

 

[nonxcarbonx]

Interesting that modern warfair 2 isn't up there, yet it grossed so much. They could have easily added more content to it.

 

[Dirtman73]

Money in no way equals quality. If the gaming industry continues down this path, we're going to see an inordinate amount of high-budget stinkers come out on a regular basis for the rest of the foreseeable future.

Oh wait, we're already at that point. GTA IV, anyone?

 

[smithereen]

I thought Half-Life 2 cost about $90M, and that Mass Effect was around $60M too.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

WOW! I didn't know just how much money was involved. Tjose are some very large numbers.

 

[knowom]

"Most games today have Hollywood movie budgets."

No real surprise with all the money they waste on trying to make cinematic cut scenes. If game play lacks adding more cut scenes is the trend developers have been using for the last 10+ years.

 

[thegreathuntingdolphin]

Yeah some of these games make several times their budget but they have to makeup for all the stinkers like Too Human.

One thing I want to know, are these just the production budgets or do they also include the marketing/promotional budgets?

 

[nonstoprobot]

GTA 4's pricetag may have had something to do with the giant posters that were all over LA before the release

 

[knowom]

I bet league of legends didn't cost anywhere close to those games and yet has game play better than pretty much all of the above.

 

[JD13]

It's amazing how you can throw that kind on money around & not come out with a good game. Now they should also give you the break down on advertising & marketing from those figures...

 

[Guest]

None of my top 10 games even made the list, showing that $ spent does not = quality! (tho a few of my top 10 are more then 15 years old now!)

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]matchboxmatt[/nom]Hahahahah, what!? I'm sorry, but that's seriously the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.Go back and play the run-of-the-mill SNES game in the 90s, and then play a run-of-the-mill PC game released today. Our standards are a lot higher than they used to be.[/citation]
define "quality" Are you talking about graphics? Game play?,etc?

Imo, most of the PC games now are cr@ppy console ports and just re-makes. There haven't been any "revolutionary" games in a while for PC (ie for example Crysis was to graphics whereas Doom was to FPS)