Insider Gaming: Microsoft spent more than $400 million to create Gears of War: E-Day
The budget for Gears of War: E-Day may be one of the largest in the history of the Xbox - and in the entire history of AAA action-adventure games in general.Insider Gaming editor-in-chief Tom Henderson spoke about this.
According to preliminary data, the total cost of creating the game could exceed $400 million.
“It’s not a fact that this game could have paid off even with the version for PlayStation 5. But even more so without it.Who's buying an Xbox Series X|S today just for Gears of War?
By comparison, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 cost Sony approximately $330 million to develop.To break even, the company had to sell 7.2 million copies of the console exclusive PlayStation 5 at full price.Thanks to leaks from Insomniac Games, we know that the Japanese company was concerned about rising budgets and asked developers to think about optimizing costs.
The most popular Gears of War since the Xbox 360, Gears of War 2, has sold about seven million copies over its entire history.
Last week, Microsoft announced that Gears of War: E-Day will become a full-fledged console exclusive for Xbox Series X|S and will never be released on PlayStation 5.
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