Comment on Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage
just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 months agoI’m just super curious at to what $600m would get me. Maybe suckering people into paying for it out of curiousity was their genius business plan along though.
cyd@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s the cost of about three typical AAA games. Genshin Impact’s costs up to around its second year of development is also about that much.
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The average cost of a AAA game is $80m.
“AAA games are the big-budget games that large studios and publishers typically make. The average AAA game takes about four years to develop, with an average cost of about $80 million and higher. But this amount can vary significantly depending on the type of game and its level of complexity.”
-https://rocketbrush.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-a-game
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 9 months ago
AAA games also tend to do esoteric things like “release” and “become profitable” and “spawn sequels.”