Was kostet eigentlich die Entwicklung (+ Marketing) eines Spiels? Bei PS 3 & Xbox 360 Spielen sprechen die Publisher grob von 20 bis 60 Mio., wobei heutzutage auch ein großer Teil ins Marketing investiert wird.
Zu insgesamt 115 Spielen von 1982 bis 2014 hat Kotaku Aussagen gesammelt.
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In 2009, EA executive Rich Hilleman indicated in a speech that his company "now typically spends two or three times as much on marketing and advertising as it does on developing a game.
Yoshida said budgets for top-tier PS4 games would be "slightly larger" than the $20 to $50 million price range
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot estimated that the average production budget for the generation of games following Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 would be $60 million.
Zu insgesamt 115 Spielen von 1982 bis 2014 hat Kotaku Aussagen gesammelt.
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E.T. - $23 million (licensing) - In Master of the Game — a 1994 biography about the late Steve Ross, then-CEO of Atari's then-parent company Warner Communications — Skip Paul, an Atari executive at the time, told author Connie Bruck the company spent $23 million to secure the license for the infamous bomb.
Resident Evil 2- $1 million - Development costs on Angel Studios' Nintendo 64 port of the horror sequel were $1 million, according to a Game Developer postmortem.
Half-Life 2 $40 million - In a 2004 interview, Gabe Newell admitted the game's development cost in excess of $40 million.
Gears of War - $10 million - During a speech at the London Games Summit, Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games, said development costs on the game were "around $10 million."
God of War III - $44 million - John Hight, then-director of product development at Sony Santa Monica, told Giant Bomb Kratos' first outing on HD consoles had a $44 million development budget.
The Witcher II - zł25 million - Marcin Iwiński said the marketing budget for the initial PC release of CD Projekt RED's RPG sequel was $5 million. And a recent story from Polish newspaper Gazeta Prawna pegged the game's development costs at 25 million zloty. [~8,17 Mio. US$]
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