Skip to content

Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video]parent

Comments

Where people got this billions cost from? I doubt that they spent that much in GTA VI. RDR2 gave the base for GTA VI (engine and things like that), so I just find really odd they would spend 2 billions on the rest

They've themselves said they've at least doubled in size since RDR2 for this game, with a studio, for example, SOLELY dedicated to random crowd NPCs systems(!) With the average Sony game with a fraction of this game's features costing upwards of 400mill, don't be so sure this behemoth didn't hit the 1.5 to 2 bill mark. Paying a growing number of devs, testers, plus insane amounts of marketing push for over a decade adds up more than you may think.

Other less complex recent AAA games cost 300-500 million, this game is easily between 1 and 2 billion, specially if you include marketing.

And just GTA Online is making 10 million USD every week.

The game screams money just looking at the sheer density of the city/map and the level of detail. There’s simply nothing quite like this, as usual with Rockstar.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.