As the video game industry is growing and growing so is the cost of developing video games as gamers expectations increase and here are the top 17 most expensive video games to develop to date.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
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They would be better breaking up what valued assets they still have and put them out to auction for the competition.
There is no more financial gain for them on any trajectory in the entertainment space.
Yeah in most of the cases we know the marketing budget trumps the development costs. Modern Warefare 2's was $200 million in marketing compared to $50 million to develop. That's insane!
Shenmue didnt cost 70, it was 47. This has been stated by Yu Suzuki himself.
Horizon Zero Dawn was probably also pretty costly to develop. And GT Sport, considering how many years it took to get released.
Rockstar games cost a lot. They spare no expense. I understand for GTA, but overv$100 million even on Max Payne, and Red Dead?
New Vegas - $9 million to development - $45 million to marketing.