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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all those millions and yet the games aren't any more fun
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I was just checking Cyberpunk with the photorealism mod and I realize that the GTA VI game would have to invest in two key areas to beat Cyberpunk 2077 as the default go to open world game to impress the world.
1. Better movement animations
2. More interactive environments and game physics
3. Better AI
If it can do these things correctly and later modders can add in a photorealism mod then this game will be the best thing ever made.
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It wouldn't need to be better than cyberpunk to impress the world because rockstar have the media on their side so websites already have their 110/100 best-game-ever made reviews prewritten. Cyberpunk was Polish so all the journos riled people up against it because ew scary eastern europeans are all chuds or something, they're going to eat pierogis fascistly
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Lol gta vi will beat cyberpunk simply by the virtue of being gta vi unless the devs make some colossal frickup
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