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I've been thinking a lot recently about how videogames "just cost so much to make now", yet no one wants to acknowledge the choices that go into a AAA game budget Years of "our strategy is fewer, bigger games" and/or "only live services"... Yeah, no wonder games got expensive to make 🙄

There's a million levers you can push on to change the budget of your game, and it turns out cranking them all up to max all the time is going to cost a lot of money Yes, inflation has made a difference, but that's not causing you to spend $300M on a spiderman game. Scoping choices are

Also continuing to chase fidelity and realism by default, for a whole ass decade since we hit severe diminishing returns has been a huge driver of cost spirals in game budgets "PS5/XBox series hardware increased budgets dramatically" - no it didn't, it just enabled execs to CHOOSE to increase costs