Development costs

hi,

does anyone know the (ballpark) dev costs of gran tourismo 5 and gta 4?


thanks.

 

Dave Jones of Realtime Worlds puts the development costs (which I presume means without marketing?) of Crackdown at $20M, if that helps?
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ke-a-game-for-less-than-50-million-says-jones

I don't know what kind of engine Crackdown uses, so I don't know if that cost includes building an in-house engine, or licensing costs for a 3rd party engine.

 

Crackdown was hung off of Renderware I believe.

 

cheers guys

 

Yes Crackdown used renderware. I would hope that the licensing cost was included in the 20 million.

GTA4 has been touted as the most expensive game ever:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/gta-iv-most-expensive-game-ever-developed

Whether that is true or just bluster I have no idea.


As for GT5 - its still in development so I don't see how you can know short of developing a time machine

 

yeah, of course, still in dev, thought there may be some sums being banded about though

 

Crackdown used Renderware 4 but development of it by EA was abandoned part way through. There's still a lot of it in there but the actual rendering part of it was mostly replaced. We did quite a bit of work on that.

As well as RTW's direct costs MS paid some extra money to bring in contractors like us to work on some of the game's technical issues. We also supplied staff working on project management, art and design.

I've no idea if the RTW's $20m is correct but it's likely that the end figure may even be a bit higher than that if you count the money paid on development staff by the publisher.

 

People have estimated GTA4 being around 100million.

'Overall, Grand Theft Auto IV took over 1000 people and more than three and a half years to complete, with a total cost estimated at approximately $100 million, making it the most expensive game ever developed'

Bottom of DEVELOPMENT header

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gta4


And here
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52464


Not sure about how much GT5 has used so far

 

Sorry Godzilla...missed your post.

 

Crackdown also used Kynogon for AI and Havok for physics.