This might be a dumb question. So I get that there goes a lot of work and time in creating a high quality game and with major game studios like ubisoft and fromsoft the cost can rank up to hundreds of millions of dollars, but even though it takes a lot of work to make a good game, how does it cost 500 million dollars? like where does that money go to? is there one specific part of making a game that costs a lot of money for large studios?
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When lagre teams of highly paid employees using expensive hardware and equipment are needed, costs go up. It’s also important to note that there is huge overlap between video game and movie production. Movies and games both record their own scores most of the time. They both use actors (video games for motion capture or voice acting) and big names often command high prices. Creating the assets for video games is not much unlike doing CGI for a movie, if not more complicated. And of course included in those massive budgets are often massive marketing costs, which can often be a quarter or a third of the total budget.
They’re basically huge productions involving a lot of people and very simillar to movies so budgets have shifted towards that end.
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