Although the truth of the balloons video games led to talk about the non -durability of the AAA industry in the industry, we rarely looked at the curtain to see how wild things were given for some primary franchises.
Thanks to the incredibly eye of Stephen Totilo from the game file, he controlled to dig up the prices indicated through the activation of 3 main games of Call of Duty from 2015 to 2020, and among them is the maximum video game never made. At least one that showed its precise budget.
The three games are brought up in the court filing, which was part of a lawsuit about the Uvalde Texas elementary school shooting that was filed against Activision. Here they are:
All of these are “over the game’s lifecycle” so that would include any post-launch content. But all of these are in a league of their own. As Totilo’s report notes it was a big deal when it was revealed Sony spent $220 million on The Last of Us Part 2. Eyes popped when it was reported that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 cost around $300 million, triple the budget of the first game.
Call of Duty, of course, is in another category entirely as it is almost always the best-selling game of the year, every year, with rare exceptions like Rockstar games or the occasional monsters like Hogwarts Legacy or Wukong.
It is a value to point out, of course, that these value ads avoid in 2020, and adjust for inflation since then, $ 700 million would look more like $ 850 million. And what about all the calls of duty since then? This would come with Vanguard, Modern Warfare 2 and 3 and now, Black Ops 6. It is easy to believe that one of them can simply the cold war, although we have not revealed, showed knowledge about those budgets.
I remember recently there were figures floating around that the budget of GTA 6 could be $2 billion. It’s a truly massive amount, and if true, would dwarf these Call of Duty numbers that have themselves dwarfed other big numbers, but it is certainly not out of the realm of possibility.
GTA 6 launched 12 years after GTA Five, unlike the annual Call of Duty games carried out for 3 years of development. GTA 6 is very likely to be the biggest game in history, but in literal size, in intensity and in detail and, in fact, an impact. Rockstar would have small scruples to spend $ 2 billion in GTA 6 when GTA Five sold 20five million copies and reported at least $ 8. Five billion in revenues. It is very easy to believe that GTA 6 is undoubtedly GTA Five in the long term (more inflation), which still represents billions of profits.
Call of Duty can escape with anything similar, but has a new phase in the era of Xbox Game Pass. But Black Ops was just a good fortune and so far there has been a slowdown in the versions. We will see if this can remain advanced from these long -term long -term budgets.
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