God of War III Developed for $44 Million

[ethaninja]

Are these games ever going to be available for the PC? They look like so much fun.

 

[Jared]

Well at least they stayed in there budget...but geeeeez! That is alot of £££ to be sure!

 

[Cabisco]

Well at least they stayed in there budget...but geeeeez! That is alot of £££ to be sure!

It's a big playstation title mind, I was expecting it to actually cost more.

Ahh well from what i've seen the collection of games I wish I had but don't because I don't have a PS3 grew by one.

EDIT: Actually surprised modern warfare 2 wasn't up there in the top ten, with it being the highest grossing game of all time.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'd get slaughtered if I said what was actually on my mind while reading this, so I'll instead say "Woo! Halo 3 is in the top 10". Also, holy balls, $100m for GTA 4 D: It didn't feel like $100m worth.

Wanna bet that none of that money went to any of the voice actors?

 

[Caradinist]

Hopefully with this big a budget, they made even greater detailed quicktime event buttons.

 

[Fire Daemon]

It has to sell at least 1 million copies so that is a guaranteed profit for 16 million. More likely 3+ million will be sold so yeah, massive amounts of money for Sony.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I'd get slaughtered if I said what was actually on my mind while reading this, so I'll instead say "Woo! Halo 3 is in the top 10". Also, holy balls, $100m for GTA 4 D: It didn't feel like $100m worth.

It does on PC

PC GTA 4 was god-awful. Vice City beats it by a mile in overall gameplay.

 

[CincoDeMayo]

OMG they plan on making a God of War clone next.

I can't believe it cost that much to make. Was that including the hooker and blow fund? Since they already have everything there set up for them I just don't see why it cost 44M to make it shiny.

Developing time * salaries (which include programmers, PR personnel, cutscene artists, supervisors, sound team, etc. After all, there's 132 mouths to feed) + making of discs, covers, shipping, advertising, etc. 44M ain't that much when you think about it.

 

[tkioz]

GTA4 cost $100m??? Geebus... for a game that horrible? Don't get me wrong the story was pretty decent, but the cars... it felt like trying to control a shopping trolley, you'd think for that kind of dosh they could make it you know... fun to drive around.

 

[Desert Warrior]

HOLY SHIT! -Spits out drink though nose-
Thats a lot of $$$

 

[ProfessorLayton]

That's pretty expensive, but I'm going to predict that it will make it all back and more.

 

[Christemo]

It'll be worth it.

I'm predicting this to be my game of the year.

it already got a 10/10 by Machinimas reviewer, Mr. Sark, so it looks to be pretty awesome.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I disagree, I mean Nikko Bellic is no Tommy Vercetti, and there are obvious improvements Rock Star can make on their current engine.

Perhaps Bellic was a more rounded character, but with the addition of GTFO I could get a maximum framerate of 14FPS. And it was Soooooooo grey.

EDIT: Vice City is badass though, no denying it heh.

I actually hated the whole franchise until I saw that.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

this shows you can do much better games with less cash.

 

[Jharry5]

Wow, that's a lot of money (though not as much as what I would've thought).
I hope for the dev's sake it lives up to the hype that's built around it...

 

[kordo]

this shows you can do much better games with less cash.

Agreed. They are throwing all that $$$ into what will be a mediocre game if its predecessors are anything to go by. Quite funny.