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Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War
(www.gamefile.news)
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These numbers sound insane. I wonder how it compares to the developpment costs of other big games.
I also wonder how it conpares to the cost of similar games like Killzone 3 or Gears Of War from 15 years ago.
Current AAA titles almost certainly have comparable development costs.
If you have 1,000 FTEs with a blended per-FTE annual cost of $100 K (I would argue this could be higher in North America and Western Europe) that works out to $100 M per year of development.
Killzone 3 spent too much R&D on PS Move for costs to be recouped