Development cost:
Baldurs gate 3 - 100 million USD
Cyberpunk 2077 - 436 million USD
Starfield - 200 million USD
Elden Ring - 200 million USD
Genshin Impact - Hundreds of millions USD
Spiderman 2 - 300 million USD
GTA VI - Expected budget costs to be more than 2 billion USD
Triple A games are only getting more expensive with time, and they are still turning a profit over time.
Expect a most expensive game ever made every 2-3 years with how things are going.
A decade ago people were writing articles about how video game budgets are ballooning, since then video game budgets have continued to balloon ever since with no real slowdown.
Additional fun fact:
Everything cutting edge in tech development currently costs 10s of billions to hundreds of billions to advance further. Only the richest countries and the top multinational corporations are in a position to make those kinds of moves to keep pushing humanity's capabilities further up. If your country GDP is less than a trillion USD, then you are pretty much cut off from participating in the future and developing it further.
Only 19 nation states can afford to assist in building the future, along with 7 corporations.
At current rates the world won't be able to afford to make revolutionary games in another decade or two. Imagine 500 million USD being the norm by 2030, and a billion being the norm by 2040.
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I mean this' literally just because of graphics, having to get all new assets for every game and trying to scale that up too.
If the AAAs made smaller, less graphically intensive games it wouldn't cost this much.
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But how will you sell something that doesn't look a lot better?
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Stylize it like Valve did with teaeff tueue or whatever, not really that hard ngmi
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GTA is already stylized though?
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It's realistic sweetie, they need to make it look like fortnite
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