AAA Game Budgets Regularly Reach $300m, New Report Claims
A new report indicates that AAA game budgets frequently exceed $300 million, with some titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War reportedly costing up to $700 million. These high costs are attributed to developer salaries and overhead, not executive compensation, and may explain industry trends like layoffs and long development cycles. In contrast, indie games like Mewgenics can be profitable with significantly lower budgets.
- Entities
- Game: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
- Company: Bloomberg
- Topic: Industry Economics
- Game: Ghost of Tsushima
- Person: Jason Schreier
- Topic: Game Development
- Game: Mewgenics
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