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[BennyBlanco]

FOUR HUNDRED MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS?!

 

[Bitstream]

 

[LordCBH]

400 MILLION?!

Just shut the fucking studio down holy shit. Clearly no one with a brain was working at PlayStation in n decision making roles over the past 7 years, because this would have been cancelled so goddamn fast otherwise.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Holy shit, fire that entire studio into the sun. Herman too if it was his brainchild.

 

[Fermbiz]

Can't get anymore OOF than that...

 

[R6Rider]

We could have had SO MANY other IPs brought back instead.

Just thinking of how we could have a new SOCOM hurts me.

 

[LordCBH]

Even if this game was GOOD that budget would still be 100% unacceptable and unsustainable.

 

[Robb]

 

[DeaconOfTheDank]

 

[DryvBy]

To put this in perspective, you'd have to watch this scene 400 times to get to that number.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Something tells me Sony Japan is going to start coming back with the iron fist again.

 

[emivita]

 

[RagnarokIV]

Kill the studio. It's the only way.

The future is bleak.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

If that's true, I take back a lot of what I said about Sony, because clearly they are retards, even if they bought FW for their technical expertise.

It would also mean that Concord would've wasted pretty much the entire revenue from HD2 and then some.

 

[Heisenberg007]

I'd believe $200M-$250M. $400M just doesn't make sense. I don't think that number is accurate.

 

[Hookshot]

Nah, it's a funny disaster without having to embellish to that extent. Star wars was famed for its merchandise, this didn't even have character video. I literally know none of their names and I've been mocking and photoshopping this for 2 weeks.

 

[hinch7]

400M. Man that could've funded a few AAA games from them. Embarrasing.

 

[tusharngf]

 

[Bernoulli]

I'd believe $200M-$250M. $400M just doesn't make sense. I don't think that number is accurate.

Just made-up for clicks

 

[lughnasadh123]

That can't be real, right?

Right?

 

[Aion002]

 

[EviLore]

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

 

[TGO]

I don't know how anyone who has been with the company for over 30 years could even entertain that idea.
Shit I'm always been disappointed by people because they should have known better

 

[K' Dash]

This is the leadership fanboys are defending here. Disgusting.

PlayStation needs a change in upper management, YESTERDAY.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Sony leadership are fucking delusional!!

 

[lh032]

think of the good side.
Now Sony will actually think carefully whenever they want to allocate budget for GaaS games.

 

[Wooxsvan]

stop making games that celebrate immutable characteristics and focus solely on fun gameplay

 

[adamsapple]

Concord cost 400M

Message fucking received.

 

[TGO]

I'd believe $200M-$250M. $400M just doesn't make sense. I don't think that number is accurate.

Those fuckers that tell how woke your game needs to be cost money ya know.

 

[zapper]

normally one feels bad if someone's work is mocked/criticized, but IF you're so stupid to say these things...

I think there's nothing to save here sadly.


a question: did Sony pay for all these millions? They were acquired long after development had begun

 

[tommib]

I actually thought of a number like that. All that CGI and the game being made in the US for 8 years, by coastal elites… Sony was all in. Spared no expense.

 

[Madflavor]

I have a hard time believing this. How the fuck did Concord cost $400m to make? Granted I'm not necessarily calling Colin a liar, or badly informed. I mean you can look at Disney and how much money they throw at their projects, such as the Acolyte. But I just can't wrap my head around this.

 

[Wildebeest]

Next week someone is going to say that this cost 1 billion dollars and was believed internally to herald the second coming of the messiah.

 

[Kikorin]

This can't be real, I want to NOT believe.

 

[dragonyeuw]

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[near]

'This was Hermen Hulst's baby apparently'

Everyone who denied this cost > $200m can eat crow.

 

[EviLore]

I actually thought of a number like that. All that CGI and the game being made in the US for 8 years, by coastal elites… Sony was all in. Spared no expense.

Yes, totally plausible.

 

[AfroRonin]

 

[LectureMaster]

400 million. All paid to those untalented retards. No wonder the industry is shit.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

Jesus Christ!!! Bomba of the century! Fire the whole team and fire Hermen Hulst or anyone who greenlit this mega flop!

 

[adamsapple]

Something tells me Sony Japan is going to start coming back with the iron fist again.

It kinda explains the HZD and Days Gone 'remaster' re-releases, they probably want to put out a couple of quicker re-releases that would not cost them all that much internally to recoup some of that cost.

 

[Mr Hyde]

 

[Sokka]

I assume this number includes the cost of purchasing the studio?

 

[Darkkahn]

Ho boy!

 

[DeepEnigma]

It kinda explains the HZD and Days Gone 'remaster' re-releases, they probably want to put out a couple of quicker re-releases that would not cost them all that much internally to recoup some of that cost.

And as I mentioned in other threads as well,

This could be the reason why we're not seeing anything out of their backbone studios. Maybe a few adjustments are being done behind the scenes after seeing these trainwrecks.

 

[Holammer]

Old leadership is laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[SlimySnake]

$400 million is basically Avatar 2's budget.

I refuse to believe it. The game was in dev for around 4 years with around 150 devs. like 20 devs for the first two years. A total of 6 years. $100 million makes more sense to me.

$400 million is basically what you get when you have James Cameron making a 3 hour long CG film for 12 years while making robots that can swim underwater and creating entirely new motion animation capture.

150 devs for 4-6 years dont cost this much. Not in LA, not in Washington, not on Mars.

Remember, Sony thinks Spiderman 2 cost $385 million. Even though they made Miles and Ratchet in between releasing those games. And had a separate team working on Wolverine at the same time. There is some kind of shady nonsense going on over at Sony. Maybe some tax write off scheme or something.

TLOU, Uncharted 2 and 3 used to cost $20 million just a decade ago. GOW3 was $44 million in 2010. Horizon Zero Dawn was $47 million in 2017. Costs have gone up. Maybe doubled. But not quadrupled or have gone up by 20x.