[CoD: MW2] production budget between $40 million and $50 million...

>[CoD: MW2] production budget between $40 million and $50 million, and a total launch cost — including global distribution and marketing — of $200 million

How does the video game industry manage to keep itself alive?

Because the market is retarded and fully supports bad practises by preordering the game and it's season pass months in advance.

user... you know MW2 made a billion in its first 24 hours, right?

People buy the games.

>videogame industry makes more money than Hollywood
>videogames in general cost less to make than Hollywood movies in general
whoa it is a mystery

>list THE most expensive video game to develop/market of all time
>lol how does the market keep itself alive?? XD
neck yourself, retard

Think Destiny or GTA5 is the highest currently. And GTA5 is still in the top 10 of the charts constantly.

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Games cost an insane amount of money to make now and take forever to come out at that. So how can it even sustain itself now?

People buy the games in the millions. When you multiply that by the cost of the game, they can easily afford it.

Call of Duty reaches the top of the charts in Japanese sales. That should show how influential it is.

MW2 was riding on insane hype so they were able to do it.

Gotta love how actual game development only consists of 25% of a game's budget.

show the 6.

It's shitty, but the fact is that dollars poured into marketing tend to pay themselves back manyfold. Blame capitalism.

how about I blame the jews instead

>The first Nintendo game on the list is the original Pokemon at 19, and only then because of the massive marketing push it got in the 90s

How does Nintendo keep costs down

Can we all agree that everyone here should play, or at least try, the top 3 games?

Sure, if you mean FF7 only.

Cawadooty and GTA are for niggers and other savages.

>$50 million on the game
>$200 million on the marketing

4/5 ths of the money you spend when you buy a cod game is actually buying advertisements. Gross.

I had no idea they spent so much on FF7 back then. The money spent on it really shows.

It didn't.

Do you not remember that during Generation 7, basically the generation defined by COD, almost all A and AA-level publishers died?

The market is waiting with baited breath to see where Vivendi is going with its interest in Ubisoft.

Why we're still seeing various THQ properties pop up under the ownership of who the fuck knows?

Now we're seeing an enormous stratification between the biggest players, mobile projects and the indie cartels.

Now that COD's played out and now trying to reinvent itself by going back to the roots, we're in a weird place where we're still a good few years into the generation, but nothing has really grabbed everybody on the same level of COD.

So you see interesting things like Doom or Wolfenstein The New Order, who both eschew Halo 2-weapon/regen health mechanics that have been the de jure standard for a decade, for more aggressive, faster paced older sentiments.

Japan's also making a pretty aggressive pushback with the most acclaimed titles this year being Japanese, and indeed, the most highly acclaimed title in decades in Breath of the Wild, but we'll see where it is in a year.

>How does Nintendo keep costs down

Modest corporate culture, never aims for super cutting edge graphics, only has to work in its own ecosystem, tends to avoid various AAA indulgences, strong management and budgeting.

All of Nintendo's auteurs now work in producer or executive level positions. There is no Kojima running amok. Kimishima's enforcers would probably shut that shit down.

capitalism and communism was literally invented by jews so its basically the same thing

How the FUCK does adverts cost so much for CoD? And Rockstar too for that matter.

GTA and CoD sell themselves. Why spend double, even triple, the budget on ads?

They go for the most expensive spots. The advertising is more of a "look at where we can advertise" than trying to sell the game.

how do you think they sell themselves, genius?