Comments on: Modern Warfare 2 cost revealed

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:54:42 +0000

550 mil and no one cares about the terrible game
shut the fuck up and just stop talking about this bad terrorist hand guide

By: name

name — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:12 +0000

50M?
bullshit!
25,30M ok but 50M i dont think so.
if i remember right GG finally came out and announced how much KZ2 cost in dev and it was between 35-45M
and that was in development for 5 freaking years compare to MW2s 2 years.
dident polyphony digital just announce GT5s development has cost roughly 50M?
and thats a 10 times bigger, better game than MW2.
and again thats been in development since the beginning of time!
50M is a complete utter load of bull shit.
moneyvision are just using that as a excuse to up the prices.
if this cost 50M than i would hate to see what uncharted 2 or heavy rain cost because there using real actors and motion capture techniques which are fucking expensive and IW did not use them for MW2.

By: bob lee

bob lee — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:58:41 +0000

If this budget is hard to believe than it just shows the lack of knowledge people have…

By: Agent75

Agent75 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:52:57 +0000

I can assure anyone that publishers bull about how much games cost to produce. If Warfare 2 sold for say £45, I bet something like £25 of it goes to the publisher, then out of that £25, you have to take out production, advertising, development costs to name a few things. it’s a load of bull when I hear/read of figures like £500 million. And did they need to advertise Warfare 2? It would of still sold by relying on magazine reviews, and everyone knew it was going to come out anyway. I use to work in the industry, never believe what publishers and even magazine tell you.

By: Devman

Devman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:02:29 +0000

Hi,

I think the gaming public is pretty ignorant of Dev costs. Would it surprise you if I said the average gaming studio, with one game in development, is burning about 1 million dollars(US) a month! That’s just wages and keeping a building heated/cooled, electricity etc etc. That’s before they start paying for new hardware, networks, upgrades for old spec PC’s, software, training for staff etc etc etc… the list goes on. Also, there tends to be a degree of ramp-up towards the end of a dev cycle (art/code/testing), outsourcing and insourcing(contractors) to help meet deadlines. A 2-3 year project can easily eat 30-0 million on an average title.
MW2 is a premium title… you can bet they’ve hired the best and the cost of wages are high. Personally I think 30-35 million across 2 years would be close, considering they built upon a previous engine.
As you can see ‘guestimates’ of $5 million are way off…. dev costs are ludicrous this generation.

By: james

james — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:06:56 +0000

do any of you even know the cost of advertisment, its expensive, even if you only consider tv advertisment, fitting it into designated time slots, on multiple channels on a global scale. Thats just one form of advertisment. this figure doesnt shock me at all, and it shows it was worth it, they more than doubled the total cost from production to distribuation of final product in 5 days alone.

By: Jin

Jin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:25:14 +0000

40 mill maybe but 200$ overall ???? movies like AVATAR dont get this much in advertisement … this is B$

By: Max

Max — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:41:35 +0000

solidsnake WOW 150 million on ads and disc distribution. Too much I can say.

I guess FAGS are expensive.

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