Cartridges cost a shitton more to make than discs, too.
Games are also a billion dollars to produce and market nowadays. Back on SNES they were like 500k.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Skill issue
Games are also a billion dollars to produce and market nowadays. Back on SNES they were like 500k.
Cartridges cost a shitton more to make than discs, too.
Skill issue
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’d like to know more specifics on those numbers. Because I Found that, for example, GTAV had a marketing budget of 70-110 million, so nowhere near the billion range even for large games. With a lot of popular games like BOTW selling over 35 million copies… I don’t think the marketing cost is an issue.
AllTheKarma@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
en.gamegpu.com/…/gta-6-topped-the-list-of-the-mos…
Here’s one source. Just Google game development costs. This source is backed by others, it’s just the first in my search that I saw and clicked on. Games are fucking expensive to build and market. GTAV is 250m according to this article.