Are Game Budgets Going Into the Right Place?

At one point in time, it was reasonably simple to develop a game for the NES. All you needed was a devoted team in certain departments, the right level of programming, a good marketing team, and that’s it. But that was then, and this is now. A new report coming out of the ongoing battle between the FTC and Microsoft over the Activision Blizzard acquisition revealed some startling numbers surrounding development of a couple of Sony’s internal games. According to said report, The Last of Us Part II cost $220 million to make, while Horizon Forbidden West was close behind with $212 million. For that matter, the teams had upwards of 200 to 300 people working on them at one time, and had a development time frame of around five years or so. <a href="https://medium.com/@robertworkman_Disruptor/are-game-budgets-going-into-the-right-place-470943579dc3">Read More</a>