10 Most Expensive Video Games
I stumbled across this list of the highest budget Video Games ever made.
The #1 slot is obvious, GTAIV was a huge undertaking. Halo 3, as well, doesn’t surprise at #5. Same for MGS4 (#4).
But Shenmue 2 at #2? I know Shenmue was a big game, and was very popular, but $70mil? That’s a lot. Especially back at the dawn of the new millenium, that must have been a huge risk on the part of the Shenmue 2 creators to spend so much. It didn’t pay off though, selling “only 1.2 million copies” and that every Dreamcast player would need to buy 2 copies of the game for it to be profitable. Woops! Looks like a gamble like that didn’t pay off, or someone didn’t do their sums.
Too Human, as well, at #3 is a worrying position to be. Too Human isn’t bad. It isn’t great, either. But it’s certainly not worth $80mil. (Wait, shouldn’t Too Human be at #2?) I appreciate they had to buy Unreal Engine 3 and then make their own engine (Because apparently UE3 isn’t a ‘working game engine‘ but who knows.) which would inevitably drive up costs. I feel sorry for them, I really do - I don’t expect Too Human to sell well at all. It’s a shame some of those megabucks weren’t spent on good advertising.
Halo 3 is interesting. $30mil was spent on advertising alone, with the other $30mil spent on the game, which probably makes it the most-spent-on-marketing game ever.
Killzone 2, as well, is fairly expected at the $40mil count. That will no doubt go higher when it comes to advertising, but as it’s PS3’s next big thing the $40mil count seems pretty standard.
Also, in other news, I got a stiffy over these awesome Fallout 3 videos. Possible spoilers ahead, mind. But it looks awesome.
One Response to “10 Most Expensive Video Games”
By Redwinters on Sep 2, 2008
steel battalion 2 is reportedly going to cost around 95 million for the game and advertising as well as 25 million production costs
[giant ass controllers :D]