How Much does a Big name Videogame COST to Make ?
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How Much does a Big name Videogame COST to Make ?
Roughly, what is the budget for a big name video game ?
something which is on a few different platforms
are we looking at 10million ? more ?
something which is on a few different platforms
are we looking at 10million ? more ?
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I'd say on big-name games you're in the ballpark, especially ones like sports games that have to license a lot of their material. I'd say for a majority of them it may be slightly less than $10 million.
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Originally posted by DonnachaOne
Subquestion; how much would an equivalent of a 2-d sega platform game from ten years ago cost to make today?
Subquestion; how much would an equivalent of a 2-d sega platform game from ten years ago cost to make today?
N'Gai Croal, "The Art of the Game," Newsweek, March 6, 2000, p. 61
"The average budget to produce a game on Sega's Genesis on the '90s was about $200,000. For today's PlayStation and Nintendo 64, it's around $2 million. Many designers expect development costs for a PlayStation 2 game to jump to at least $4 million."