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game budgets - May-8th-2008 16:31:52

crillyconlig

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was reading there that killzones budget is a huge 60 million(dont take as fact), any one else know other games budgets?

some game develpers must take huge risks investing so much money, if thier game flopped then bye bye dev

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 16:39:01

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I remember HL2 for a while was the largest at 40mil when it was in development.

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 16:45:22

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gta4 was around $100,000,000
youd think theyd be able to put a little more effort into the visuals with that kind of cash going into it

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 16:46:23

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gta4 was around $100,000,000
youd think theyd be able to put a little more effort into the visuals with that kind of cash going into it

you'd think people would try to learn more about game development before making stupid comments.

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 16:49:00

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you'd think that... well no you wouldn't

Game budgets are getting scary and it shouldn't be. For a game company to have to put so much money into a game where if it fails you're out of a job is never good. No wonder every single game gets hyped to the max. They need you to buy the game

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 16:50:47

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Don't forget how big movie budgets are, and they only last 90 minutes or so.

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 16:53:30

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But movies are different. They not only have the theater release they also have dvd and bluray sales plus royalties once it goes out on tv. With games you have one release I suppose you could add in each territory but the selling of video games is highly different than the selling of a movie

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 16:55:15

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wait, you mean you didn't know?

most of that cash goes into the various porn subscriptions they have going on around the offices

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 16:56:49

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im offended by that

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 17:00:23

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im offended by that
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chin up

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 17:01:16

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guerrilla is fortunate enough to be part sony's first party developers so the money is coming from sony and so if it flops they'll still be around, whereas smaller studios or 3rd party developers aren't as fortunate to have a backing like this and so it's extremely dangerous ground to tread with such high budgets.

i can understand why the budgets are getting so high now that the technology is here to make games so cinematic that it rivals movies.
it's not like the old days with sprites and midi music.

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 17:06:20

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i read somewhere killzone 2 budget is up 25 million
25 million dollars!!!!!!!!!!

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 17:11:13

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i read somewhere killzone 2 budget is up 250 million

Wtf?

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 17:11:36

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shenmue cost 80 million dollars

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 17:15:18

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awwww, everyone just wants to have a mature discussion and not make innapropriate jokes

SpaceCowGirl, back me up here hoohah

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 17:15:57

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quote:

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i read somewhere killzone 2 budget is up 250 million

Wtf?

LOL!!!!!

ok chill out son, 250 million could make you every EA game ever made

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RE: game budgets - May-8th-2008 17:19:38

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