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Contents 1 Most expensive games 2 Other game budgets 3 See also 4 References

Most expensive gamesEdit

• Grand Theft Auto IV - $100 million [1]
• Gran Turismo 5 - $80 million [2]
• Shenmue - $70 million [3]
• Final Fantasy VII - $45 million, [4] plus $100 million marketing [5]
• Too Human - $60-100 million (rumor)
• Metal Gear Solid 4 - $50-60 million (rumor)
• Tom Clancy - $50 million [6]
• Halo 3 - over $30 million, about $60M including promotional costs
• Killzone 2 - ~$40-60 million [7][8][9]
• APB MMO - $50 million budget [10]
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - $40-50 million [11]  
• Final Fantasy XII: $35-48 million
• Tom Clancy MMO - $50 million budget [12]
• Final Fantasy IX - $40 million [13]
• Wii Fit - ~$40 million marketing cost [14]
• Stranglehold - $30 million [15]
• Assassin's Creed 2 - $24 million [16]
• Brutal Legend - $24 million ^[1]
• Crysis - $22 million [17]
• Yakuza - $21 million
• Lost Planet - $20 million to develop, $20 million to promote [18]
• Assassin's Creed - $20 million [19]
• Crackdown - $20 million [20]
• Ghostbusters - $15-$20 million [21]
• Half-Life episodes - $12 million each [22]
• Red Steel - $12 million [23]
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - $10 million [24]
• Other games

Other game budgetsEdit

• Left 4 Dead - $10 million marketing cost [25]
• Frogger (1981) and The Empire Strikes Back (1982) - $6 million combined marketing [26]
• The Legend of Xanadu (1994) - ¥300 million, or $4 million, for television promotion [27]
• Dragon's Lair (1983) - $1.3 million
• Penny Arcade Adventures: Episode 1 - $1 million and 18 months of development [28]
• Sam & Max episode 1 - $400,000 [29]
• Braid - $200,000 [30]
• Zaxxon (1982) - $150,000 marketing [31]
• Donkey Kong (1981) - $100,000
• World of Goo - $96,000 for development[32]

See alsoEdit

• Video game costs

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Postmortem: Double Fine's Brutal Legend