'This Is Unsustainable Madness': Modern Video Game Budgets Are Out of Control

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Many games now cost $300m or more.The cost of making AAA video games on America’s west coast, where some of Sony’s most prestigious first-party devs like Naughty Dog and Santa Monica Studio are based, is out of control.Musing on social media site BlueSky, reliable Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier said that while it’s “tough to corroborate 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”.Read the full article on pushsquare.com