Return of investment. How much money they get in return verses development costs and marketing.
$315mil to make a game that's a lot shorter than some AAA games, reused a lot from the 1st game and is padded out.
Makes you wonder how much some of these games cost to make which didn't use assets from previously developed games and are much longer experiences.
I assume games are a lot cheaper to make in Eastern Europe and in Asia, so studios outside of the US can get a lot more mileage with their budgets. Might be part of the reason why Spiderman, God of War and Horizon all borrow so much the previous game?
I'm asking some questions, such as how much is it costing to develop longer games than SM2 which aren't reusing previous work - do we assume higher than $315mil? Are Insomniacs budgets inflated because it's more expensive to develop in NA and a lot cheaper to develop in other territories?
Is that ratchet and clank ps4 or rift apart ps5? We might not get another if 2M isn't enough to break even. Such a good game. Tbf it was next gen only so could have made a profit if sold later in the gen plus there will still be some future sales.
Ya, but if you eyeball the chart if you take Total Profit and divide by Total Costs, the ROI % is not even close to what the chart says.
Yeah… the numbers don’t add up. Perhaps the “total costs” include some “costs” that aren’t considered “investments” for the purposes of calculating the ROI? Or the ROI factors in depreciation of equipment that isn’t factored into “costs”? I dunno, but it is interesting.
$315mil to make a game that's a lot shorter than some AAA games, reused a lot from the 1st game and is padded out, so how much is it costing to make longer games which aren't reusing previous work?
Makes you wonder how much some of these games cost to make which didn't use assets from previously developed games and are much longer experiences.
Do we assume games are a lot cheaper to make in Eastern Europe and in Asia, so studios outside of the US can get a lot more mileage with their budgets?
I have played RDR 2 and it always appeared like a game with a total budget of at least $500 million.
True, probably a load of other factors not included in that table. Interesting numbers in either case.
Yup. I can only see AAA games playing it more and more safe going forward with budgets like these. One failure and the studio can go bankrupt.
It's made about $10 million on PC so far. So yes, considering the legs of PC games this may just push it into the green.
Platformer are just not that popular genre for the mainstream; outside Mario. And that Rift Apart close to breaking here and probably breaking even with PC ports. And maybe profiting in the long run is a feat in itself - for a AAA budget game in that category.
And jacked up sub plans $20 or more each. With something like 45M active sub plans, that's around $1 billion extra revenue.
Well. They are paying 9-18% of digital sales to Marvel as royalty fee
Sony ‘game costs are ballooning out of control, so we have to charge more to the consumer’
$315mil to make a game that's a lot shorter than some AAA games, reused a lot from the 1st game and is padded out, so how much is it costing to make longer games which aren't reusing previous work?
Examples of some longer AAA games which didn't reuse assets:
Do we assume games are a lot cheaper to make in Eastern Europe and in Asia, so studios outside of the US can get a lot more mileage with their budgets?
Most the budget isn't game development, it's marketing and it's not cheap.
Man I feel for Sony, AAA singleplayer games is a horrible business model right now, damn.
$315mil to make a game that's a lot shorter than some AAA games, reused a lot from the 1st game and is padded out, so how much is it costing to make longer games which aren't reusing previous work?
Examples of some longer AAA games which didn't reuse assets:
Do we assume games are a lot cheaper to make in Eastern Europe and in Asia, so studios outside of the US can get a lot more mileage with their budgets?
$315mil to make a game that's a lot shorter than some AAA games, reused a lot from the 1st game and is padded out, so how much is it costing to make longer games which aren't reusing previous work?
The point of these games is not to make money.
Unfortunately...
Because it's another project with it's own budget.
I think the point is to just show data on the statistics provided.
Doesn't that include marketing?
It is not because spreadsheet was made at time when cost/ROI and profit of OG game was irrelevant.
am I the only shocked by this ? After releasing 80€ games, they'll make them in 2 parts at 60€ (in France 50$ always convert to 60€) ? or wait 2 years to get it in 1 part for 80€ ? That's so fucked up.Add this to the OP:
$400 million for a two-part finale.
Because it cost 40 million to make.
