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[Draugoth]

Rumor retweeted by ZheugEx so it must have some credibility.

Grand Theft Auto 6 will reportedly cost $2 billion.

Been in development since 2014 and will be the most expensive entertainment product of all time.

Also 2 billion includes the whole development and advertising. And post launch content.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Reported where? That tweet? Lol

 

[Fake]

What was the cost of GTAV? I remember being highly expensive.

 

[amigastar]

Wow, thats a lot if true.
Anyways i'm waiting for a first trailer from Rockstar. I hope it comes out on PC the same date as console.

 

[aliadiere25]

About to get a loan from Jeff Bezos so I can play this game.

 

[Draugoth]

Reported where? That tweet? Lol

Updated the post.

 

[clarky]

I call bullshit.

 

[hemo memo]

 

[balls of snow]

I only predicted a billion. 2 billion is wild.

 

[bitbydeath]

 

[SEGA_2012]

Just show that SEGA is the best. They made the supreme Masterpiece Yakuza 1 with 20 millions, but Rockstar needs 2 billion for GTA6 .
To be this good takes SEGA

 

[SlimySnake]

$2 billion is ridiculous lol. Probably half a billion considering they have all 7 studios working on it for the last five years and it still has 2 years left. Rdr2 was $270 million with 3,000 devs working on it for five years.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

And I thought the Star Citizen fans were nuts. Alpha footage didn't look worth 60 buckerinos, let alone 2 bil

 

[GHG]

Unsustainable, they need to be purchased immediately to stop this madness.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

must have one hell of a marketing campaign planned

 

[intbal]

Are they making versions for all the 7th and 8th gen consoles, too?

 

[Draugoth]

Are they making versions for all the 7th and 8th gen consoles, too?

See GTA V

 

[adamsapple]

Honestly? I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

Unsustainable, they need to be purchased immediately to stop this madness.

I know just the best potential parent company.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Yikes! Game is going to cost $200 for the base version if true.

 

[DaGwaphics]

See gamers, this is what happens when you accept a $10 price increase and let them move to $70. In the blink of an eye they've moved it up $2b. Imagine the quality though.

 

[jasondefaoite]

Damn. And I thought games where expensive at US$70. If it's 2B for GTA6, hard pass for me.

 

[amigastar]

I just hope the won't go into mtx territory to earn that money back.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Seems unbelievable at that cost. I can only imagine how detailed this game is going to be.

 

[Salz01]

But after its released Take Two be like…

 

[Basil King]

2 billion dollars and I better not still be mashing X to run. Put that on L3 already.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

I just hope the won't go into mtx territory to earn that money back.

Not sure if this is a serious post. GTAV has shit loads of this in multiplayer. Can’t imagine it will affect single player though.

 

[Teh Chosen Juan]

What was the cost of GTAV? I remember being highly expensive.

i believe about $500MM

edit: i was wrong according to Bard -

The total cost to make and sell Grand Theft Auto V was estimated to be around $265 million. This includes the development costs, marketing costs, and distribution costs. The development costs were the most expensive, at around $137 million. The marketing costs were around $100 million, and the distribution costs were around $28 million.

 

[amigastar]

Not sure if this is a serious post. GTAV has shit loads of this in multiplayer. Can’t imagine it will affect single player though.

Maybe, i wouldn't know since i've only played Singleplayer of GTA V.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Rockstar’s on another level in terms of detail. I can only imagine the size and scope of this.

That anticipated budget sounds like it includes future hardware, multiplayer support, etc.

 

[squarealex]

If Halo Infinite cost 500M, so yeah, GTA6 2 billion make sense.

 

[newtypepilot]

some creative accounting must be happening to reach that 2 billion figure lol

That being said, Rockstar will use this as justification for even more egregious MTX.

"it costs 2 billion to develop!! Please support us!"
"the increased cost is due to inflation and supply chain issues!!!"
"the special limited iconic whale collector's edition is worth $300! It includes exclusive skins!!!"

 

[GigaBowser]

Hopefully with all that monies they finally fix the crud on foots gameplay and missions

 

[ReBurn]

If true I'm betting the bulk of that went into a new GTA online because there's no way they spent that just for story mode.

 

[Yoboman]

$2 billion is ridiculous lol. Probably half a billion considering they have all 7 studios working on it for the last five years and it still has 2 years left. Rdr2 was $270 million with 3,000 devs working on it for five years.

There were not 3000 working on it for five years lol

 

[amigastar]

There were not 3000 working on it for five years lol

I don't think also, considering Rockstar has 2000 employees currently.

 

[8BiTw0LF]

$500 million in development costs

$1.5 billion in marketing costs

 

[kruis]

2 billion dollars? How? The most expensive games from Sony (Horizon Forbidden West and TLOU2) cost $220 million dollars and took five years to create. Even if you double that amount because Rockstar has been working on GTAVI for ten years, you "only" get $450-500 million dollars. Do they have four times as many programmers working on the game as well?

 

[Kilau]

That has to be some creative budgeting if true.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

 

[Captain Toad]

I'm worried where the industry is headed. Budgets keep growing to the point where a couple projects that don't hit could tank a developer.

And people seem less and less impressed. Law of diminishing returns applies only to the finished project, while the costs required for those small improvements grow exponentially in the opposite direction.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

 

[GrouchyGamer]

30 million copies to break even? No problem. I read GTA V moved 130 million copies and pulled in $6BN.

 

[violence]

I can’t wait to play a campaign’s worth of mafia missions in Disneyworld.

 

[Puscifer]

Just show that SEGA is the best. They made the supreme Masterpiece Yakuza 1 with 20 millions, but Rockstar needs 2 billion for GTA6 .
To be this good takes SEGA

I'm not even sure what level of ironic shitposting this is but I like it

 

[Pelta88]

GTA V has been topping the charts worldwide since 2013. 2 Billion is peanuts in comparison to the profit GTA 6 is poised to generate.

 

[Dynasty8]

And it'll make it all back on day one

 

[Puscifer]

2 billion dollars? How? The most expensive games from Sony (Horizon Forbidden West and TLOU2) cost $220 million dollars and took five years to create. Even if you double that amount because Rockstar has been working on GTAVI for ten years, you "only" get $450-500 million dollars. Do they have four times as many programmers working on the game as well?

I mean if this is true this game needs to have some real physics and reactivity that I can knock down a building with enough work and have the world react long term to see where the money went. If they just give me Red Dead in modern day I'm going to be bored out of my fucking mind

 

[SlimySnake]

There were not 3000 working on it for five years lol

Yep. They were. All 7 studios worked on that game. Jason reported on this back then.

 

[diffusionx]

2 billion dollars? How? The most expensive games from Sony (Horizon Forbidden West and TLOU2) cost $220 million dollars and took five years to create. Even if you double that amount because Rockstar has been working on GTAVI for ten years, you "only" get $450-500 million dollars. Do they have four times as many programmers working on the game as well?

Back when games cost $50M-$100M, the pS3/360 era, GTA5 came in with a $260M budget. RDR2 supposedly cost about double that, and was still coded for PS4/One where the games were probably in the $100M-$150M range. Going by this rough rule of thumb, $2B is an awful lot, but yea, 10 years of development, thousands of people, highest production values... I could see it.

 

[jshackles]

Best I can do is $69.99