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Which Games Production budget was bigger? MGSV or FFXV??
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AgentLampshade
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MGSV didn't get a movie.
TheGeniusArcana
Member
XV for sure.
DarkLordMalik
Member
FFXV is certainly not as high as Destiny or GTA V but it should be above 100 million, which makes it more expensive than MGSV.
It is also feature complete unlike MGSV.
It is also feature complete unlike MGSV.
Dombrowski
is responsible for the well-being of this island.
I think the CG movie alone costs more than MGSV.
The Silver
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Kojima salty as fuck Square got all those famous people to voice their characters.
Gamer @ Heart
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If that were remotely true, it would be a spirits within level disaster and an unimaginably bad business move.
SpiceMelange
Member
Full length CGI Movie, alongside a game that's been burning money for 10+ years. I think the answer is clear. This whole project must be one of the most expensive game project ever, if not the most, tbh.
brickarts295
Member
Obviously XV. Specially when it was original Versus XIII.
I wonder what is going to be the next years high budget JP AAA game?
I wonder what is going to be the next years high budget JP AAA game?
RevolverRoden
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hahahahahaha
Vital Tundra
Member
I willing to bet XV is one of the most expensive games out there. And yes I count Versus.
Elfforkusu
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The marketing budget for FFXV has to be astronomical.
Than it wouldn't be streaming.
MatrixMan.EXE
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Unless someone in this thread is on the dev team and knows the budget, all we can do is pull figures from our asses. There's no way of knowing.
AuthenticM
Member
After this event, XV for sure.
I'm uncertain as to the exact lengths of Square's involvement in the financing of that Audi car, but that CG movie alone probably cost a fuck ton of money to produce.
I'm uncertain as to the exact lengths of Square's involvement in the financing of that Audi car, but that CG movie alone probably cost a fuck ton of money to produce.
HomerSimpson-Man
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Seems like XV production budget would be more massive.
In the span of the original Versus 13 announcement to the planned release of XV, Kojima/Konami had released MGS4, Peacewalker, and MGS5:Ground Zeroes/The Phantom Pain, with the later across 5 platforms all before XV releases too.
In the span of the original Versus 13 announcement to the planned release of XV, Kojima/Konami had released MGS4, Peacewalker, and MGS5:Ground Zeroes/The Phantom Pain, with the later across 5 platforms all before XV releases too.
Randomizer
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XV has been in development in some form for a decade, without a doubt it has cost more to develop. On top of that there is the CG movie, the anime, Florence in the Machine Theme Song, mobile game and this press event.
Ghost Slayer
Member
CGI movies, big Hollywood names and the games themselves. Yeah, XV > V
It's going to be feature length, star big actors, and has the quality of Square Enix's finest CG FMVs, why wouldn't it?
I'm assuming they are going to monetize with ads.
Newtype-001
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XV.
I mean isnt it obvious they got the yeaah science bitch guy from Breaking Bad.
I mean isnt it obvious they got the yeaah science bitch guy from Breaking Bad.
MGSV was only 88 million over 5 years and it lead to 2 products - Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain. Konami made bank within a month of release but they lost their best developer and studio so in a way I'd say that was more "costly".
Being real though for a second - I've said many times that until Versus XIII became 15 it wasn't in full production. A small team doing largely story planning and engine demos isn't a game. That's all versus XIII was and plus, it was essentially cancelled after 6 years so that , whatever it was became a write off. It still might have cost 12 million though (conservative guess of 2 million a year from 2006-2012). FFXV proper on the other hand ... well 3.5 years of full development multiplied by a staff that I'm guessing had to be close to 300 people getting paid with benefits and insurance as much as 90K a year each = 94.5 million dollars. So , let's be a stickler here and add those 2 numbers together , that's 106.5 million dollars. Commissioning that 5 episode anime (12 minutes a pop it seems so 60 minutes total) had to be 1.5-2 million and the CG movie Kingsgraive ? I don't know how long it is but if it's feature length that means it must be 80 minutes or so , I'd wager it cost at least 40 million to produce. So where are we at now ? about 150 million total ? Well there's also the mobile game and the fancy Audi R8 plus everything to do with distribution and disc production , licensing fees , you name it. By the time September 30th rolls around , this will be at least a 200 million dollar investment. So for those keeping track that means Square needs to sell about 8 million copies world wide at full price to break even. .....
Being real though for a second - I've said many times that until Versus XIII became 15 it wasn't in full production. A small team doing largely story planning and engine demos isn't a game. That's all versus XIII was and plus, it was essentially cancelled after 6 years so that , whatever it was became a write off. It still might have cost 12 million though (conservative guess of 2 million a year from 2006-2012). FFXV proper on the other hand ... well 3.5 years of full development multiplied by a staff that I'm guessing had to be close to 300 people getting paid with benefits and insurance as much as 90K a year each = 94.5 million dollars. So , let's be a stickler here and add those 2 numbers together , that's 106.5 million dollars. Commissioning that 5 episode anime (12 minutes a pop it seems so 60 minutes total) had to be 1.5-2 million and the CG movie Kingsgraive ? I don't know how long it is but if it's feature length that means it must be 80 minutes or so , I'd wager it cost at least 40 million to produce. So where are we at now ? about 150 million total ? Well there's also the mobile game and the fancy Audi R8 plus everything to do with distribution and disc production , licensing fees , you name it. By the time September 30th rolls around , this will be at least a 200 million dollar investment. So for those keeping track that means Square needs to sell about 8 million copies world wide at full price to break even. .....
Hibiki Kurosawa
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I'd have to say it's pretty obviously FFXV
And SE had to sellEpisode Duscae Type-0 HD at full price to recoup theirs.
And SE had to sell
John Kowalski
Banned
Would all the money spent on Versus count?
So why did they withold the game from the world for so long?
Hibiki Kurosawa
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What do you mean?
AHA-Lambda
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Surely it's XV, it's been around for more than a decade in one form or another
How long did it take to localize Type-0? It should have released on psp years ago.