{"id":648875,"date":"2025-01-12T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T03:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/whats-behind-ballooning-video-game-budgets\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T06:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T03:45:15","slug":"whats-behind-ballooning-video-game-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/whats-behind-ballooning-video-game-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"#What’s behind ballooning video game budgets?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why does it cost some companies hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a popular video game<\/a>?<\/p>\n

A couple weeks ago, The New York Times blamed the never-ending quest to deliver more photo-realistic graphics<\/a>\u2014 and it suggested the industry is beginning to see diminishing returns, leading to layoffs and studio closures.<\/p>\n

However, Bloomberg\u2019s Jason Schreier argues this analysis<\/a> is \u201ca little bit off the mark.\u201d He doesn\u2019t deny that budgets have grown dramatically ($20 million for Naughty Dog\u2019s \u201cUncharted 2\u201d in 2009 vs. $220 million for their \u201cLast of Us Part II\u201d\u00a0 in 2020) or that graphics play a role, but he said it really boils down to needing bigger teams for longer periods of time \u2014 due to improved graphics, yes, but also the growing scope of games.<\/p>\n

Plus, he writes that \u201ceveryone\u201d who\u2019s spent at least a few years in the industry has \u201ctheir own horror story\u201d about management decisions like \u201cfeature that gets canceled because the CEO\u2019s teenage kid didn\u2019t like it\u201d or teams of hundreds of people \u201cfloundering in pre-production as they try to figure out what a game\u2019s \u2018core loop\u2019 will actually look like.\u201d<\/p>\n

So if game companies are really worried about ballooning budgets, Schreier says they should focus their\u00a0 \u201cintrospection\u201d on mismanagement that can end up wasting everyone\u2019s work and time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Why does it cost some companies hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a popular video game? A couple weeks ago, The New York Times blamed the never-ending quest to deliver more photo-realistic graphics\u2014 and it suggested the industry is beginning to see diminishing returns, leading to layoffs and studio closures. However, Bloomberg\u2019s Jason Schreier…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/activision-call-of-duty-warzone.jpg?resize=1200,675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[10751,151443],"class_list":["post-648875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-gaming","tag-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}