One of the main issues of the industry, the continuous rise of AAA game development costs, seemingly has no end in sight. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, the budgets being “floated around” these days often match or even exceed $300 million: Exact budgets of video-game productions can be tough to corroborate (more transparency from publishers would be nice!), but the numbers I’ve heard floating around AAA game dev these days are $300 million or more — sometimes much more! — which I think helps explain the current state of the industry. Schreier also clarified that those costs refer to AAA […]
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