You have hardly ever thought about this, but creating a game can be quite expensive. The larger the project, the more resources are invested in the development of the game. This often ends up costing developers millions of dollars. Due to the fact that so many resources are spent on the creation of these publications, you can understand how strong a product must be in order to get its fans.
The most expensive video game ever created cost half a billion dollars. That's $ 200 million more than the most expensive movie ever! Why are video games so expensive to create? One reason is that the film can last two or three hours and contain forty thousand words of dialogue for recording. But a video game is not linear, like a movie. A video game can last eighty hours or more. The producers of one game on our list recorded 2.5 million lines of dialogue.
The games below are some of the most expensive ever created in the world. You will no doubt recognize most of the names on this list.
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- 10. Max Payne 3, $ 105 million
- 9. Grand Theft Auto IV, $ 110 million
- 8. APB: All Points Bulletin, $ 110 Million
- 7. Too Human, $ 110 million
- 6. Star Citizen, $ 130 million
- 5. Star Wars: The Old Republic, $ 210 million
- 4. Final Fantasy VII, $ 214 million
- 3. Grand Theft Auto V, $ 270 Million
- 2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, $ 276 million
- 1. Destiny, $ 500 million
10. Max Payne 3, $ 105 million
Rockstar game Max Payne 3was released four years after GTA IV and cost them about the same. Max Payne 3, released almost ten years after the last game, was highly anticipated, but didn't sell as well as you think.
Despite the fact that the series has loyal followers, the numbers were not the same as we could all expect from a Rockstar product. This experience has become a bitter pill, given the ridiculous costs of developing the game.
9. Grand Theft Auto IV, $ 110 million
One thing you can quickly notice is that Rockstar is pretty much on this list. The team does not mess around, as most modern games cost them a pretty penny.
Estimated cost GTA IV was $ 100 plus a million when she came out, making her one of the most expensive games ever made at the time. The game still holds high places in a variety of ratings, despite the fact that it was released more than ten years ago.
8. APB: All Points Bulletin, $ 110 Million
APB Realtime Worlds: All Points Bulletin shares this place with several other games, including those not on our list: Tomb Raider, Disney Infinity, Deadpool and Battlefield 4. All of these games cost more than $ 100 million, which include development and marketing campaign costs.
Most of them ultimately succeeded, both critically and financially. APB & Deadpool are the only real setbacks in this group. We are sure that the development team is really scared to think that, despite the fact that they invest so much in the game, it can still burn out.
7. Too Human, $ 110 million
Too human - in seventh place in our top of the most expensive video games of all time. Completed in 2008, the video game took ten years to develop, but only 760,000 copies were sold.
Too Human was originally created for the PlayStation 1 in 1999, but due to lack of time, technology has moved to a new level and was moved to the Gamecube, and then to the Xbox in 2005.
6. Star Citizen, $ 130 million
Star citizen aims to become a complete space sandbox, allowing players to explore the cold, dark void between the stars. The game includes a flight simulator, a first-person shooter, intelligence and role-playing mechanics, such as quests and player progress.
The game promises its followers an interactive galaxy containing thousands of worlds and hundreds of star systems - on a scale that has never been seen in video games. After 7 years of development, the developers have added quite a few depth levels to the game, such as the first star system and the FPS component of the game, Squadron 42.
With a budget of nearly $ 130 million, Star Citizen sought to become the most expensive video game ever made. It has already overtaken bestsellers such as Grand Theft Auto IV or APB: All Points Bulletin.
5. Star Wars: The Old Republic, $ 210 million
At the time of release in 2011, analysts called "Star Wars: The Old Republic"The most expensive video game ever created: they predicted that BioWare would cost between $ 150 and $ 200 million.
The game costs $ 60, and players pay about $ 15 a month for a subscription to play for the Jedi and Sith. In the first three days after the launch, she received about 1 million subscribers, making her the fastest growing online multiplayer online role-playing game in history.
4. Final Fantasy VII, $ 214 million
«Final Fantasy VII"Cost about $ 45 million, and the US marketing budget is about $ 100 million.
The RPG genre was never considered the mainstream or popular genre, i.e. until the release of Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation. With the historical release of Final Fantasy VII in June 1997, role-playing games finally got the respect they deserve, and the RPG genre is now one of the most significant and defining in the system.
Following the story of Cloud Strife, gamers embarked on a fantastic journey that spanned three CDs and over 40 hours of gameplay. The game continued the trend of using a turn-based combat system of the series, supplemented by melee and complex magic attacks.
The game was released in 1997 after a huge three-month marketing campaign in the United States, which included television and theater commercials, Pepsi holiday ads, and print ads.
3. Grand Theft Auto V, $ 270 Million
Grand theft auto v - A clever, viciously comic commentary on modern, post-economic crisis America. Everything in it is saturated with satire: it penetrates into the generation of our millennium, celebrities, the extreme right, the extreme left, the middle class, the media ... Nothing is safe from the sharp language of Rockstar, including modern video games.
Grand Theft Auto V estimates for development and sales range from $ 137 to $ 265 million.
In 2013, the game won seven Guinness world records, including the best-selling video game in the style of an adventure action movie in 24 hours (on the first day of its sale, it was approaching a threshold of $ 800 million).
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, $ 276 million
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Is a first-person shooter released in 2009. This is the sixth part of the series and the continuation of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Don't let the confusing names fool you!
According to the LA Times, Call of Duty production cost $ 50 million. But add marketing expenses as well as production and distribution costs, and the launch budget is about $ 200 million.
1. Destiny, $ 500 million
Destiny currently the most expensive video game ever made: $ 500 million.
The $ 500 million price tag drops to $ 140 million for development costs, according to the leaked details of the contract between Bungie (developer) and Activision (publisher), and the rest is marketing, distribution, royalties, etc.
Just note that the most expensive film ever made, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, cost $ 300 million.