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Some interesting tidbits about the budget and team size of Driveclub found by Timur222 on Twitter:

• Driveclub was developed by a team of more than 200 people with a budget of more than $60+ million
• Driveclub - Season Pass - $20 million budget, team size 200+
• Driveclub - VR. - $10 million budget, team size - 50+

 

[lh032]

this makes concord looks like a massive failure.

 

[BennyBlanco]

this makes concord looks like a massive failure.

You’re really going out on a limb there

 

[diffusionx]

The game would cost 2x-3x that if it were to be coming out today.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Soon with unlocked performance on ShadPS4 \o/

 

[Skifi28]

Today 60 million is AA territory.

 

[Lokaum D+]

give us Driveclub and Motor Storm back ffs, there is almost 0 arcade racing game on PS right now.

 

[mansoor1980]

resurrect evolution studios , simple as that
and fire hermen hulst

 

[PauloRoberto]

this makes concord looks like a massive failure.

To be honest, the only way not to make concord looks like a masive failure is to comapre it with new Joker movie (in this case, Concord is 'just' a failure).

 

[The Stig]

really wish i could get the dlc for the game. its pretty damn good

 

[N30RYU]

One of the best looking racing game

 

[xrnzaaas]

Say what you will, but that's quite a lot of money for a racing game. That Season Pass budget probably also included all of the post-release updates. And they've introduced a ton of them, like super high quality weather effects, a separate campaign with bikes or a (semi)sim mode.

We can only guess how things would play out if this wasn't a game with licences in place that had to be delisted several years after launch.

 

[Mephisto40]

Was a decent game with a great VR mode

 

[hemo memo]

$60 million is not bad. That's 15% or less of Concord's budget, which lasted a week.

 

[Cakeboxer]

100 of them only worked on the wet windshield effect.

 

[bellome]

The game was really good in almost every aspect, in my opinion one of the best arcade racers I've ever played.

I wish Sony would invest in making AAA arcade racers like Driveclub/Motorstor/Wipeout

 

[RaZoR No1]

If they only did not botched the release of this game....
It had no rivals on PS4 expect NFS, but they failed the release so hard, even the updates afterwards and the VR version did not help anymore

Visually probably one of the most interesting and good looking games.
Physics wise.. well it is an arcade game.. it was not exaclty my kind of driving physics, but I still played it.

BTW: Where are my AA /AAA Arcade Racers? Only Forza Horizon / The Crew and NFS are still in the game...

 

[Thebonehead]

The game was really good in almost every aspect, in my opinion one of the best arcade racers I've ever played.

I wish Sony would invest in making AAA arcade racers like Driveclub/Motorstor/Wipeout

No need when they have Forza Horizon 5 on the way..

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

yeah. Just pretty graphics but lack of content and ambition. i bet a lot of those devs were contractors for art assets.

 

[ElFenomeno]

Maybe a hot take but , compared to the madness of Motorstorm, the game was bland and not fun to play at all. I don't enjoy racing games on tracks a la Gran Turismo/Forza Motorsport though.

 

[Fahdis]

Compared to the madness of Motorstorm, the game was bland and not fun to play at all.

 

[mckmas8808]

Maybe a hot take but , compared to the madness of Motorstorm, the game was bland and not fun to play at all. I don't enjoy racing games on tracks a la Gran Turismo/Forza Motorsport though.

Yeah back take!

 

[XXL]

It was worth it.

 

[adamsapple]

this makes concord looks like a massive failure.

This ? and not any of the other things ?

 

[MrSmooth]

Thosearerookienumbers.gif

 

[Loomy]

Maybe a hot take but , compared to the madness of Motorstorm, the game was bland and not fun to play at all. I don't enjoy racing games on tracks a la Gran Turismo/Forza Motorsport though.

Lol, I don't think it was trying to be Motorstorm.

 

[Saber]

This only shows how talent surpass anything else.

If was this game was made today not would be only infested with putrit social crap/pronoums, but would cost 5x times more and the would be a heck of incomplete, not to mention it would be a GaaS.

 

[RCX]

Adjusted for inflation that's somewhere in the region of $80 million. Not cheap for sure if you account for its overall impact and profitability

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

this makes concord looks like a massive failure.

DriveClub team size 200 @ 60 million.
Concord team size 170 @ 400 million.

 

[Imtjnotu]

DriveClub team size 200 @ 60 million.
Concord team size 170 @ 400 million.

I hate new sony

 

[diffusionx]

Adjusted for inflation that's somewhere in the region of $80 million. Not cheap for sure if you account for its overall impact and profitability

this does not account for the managerialism and bureaucracy that has beset these studios in the past 10 years. That drives up the cost in crazy ways that go far beyond wage inflation. A major studio simply cannot make a game the same way they did in 2010-2014.

DriveClub credits - 171 professional roles, God of War Ragnarok - 2,601.

 

[noob smokes]

Only sim racer i really got into its visualls pissed all over gt & forza team racing was fun asf

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

100 of them only worked on the wet windshield effect.

totally worth it

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Yet allegedly Concord costs 6X as much with less people working in it, after adjusting for inflation

Makes total sense Colin

Derp

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I hate new sony

Sony works in their best interest.
Media grifters also work in their best interest.

 

[mdkirby]

The insomniac leak revealed drive club sold about 5 million copies, obv not all at full price, but with a budget of only about 90mil that should def have made a profit.

 

[CamHostage]

Lol, I don't think it was trying to be Motorstorm.

No, but what WAS it trying to be?

That was always the problem for me, it was just a different style of a circuit racer for a console which had the definitive circuit racer in GT already. The "club" part of DriveClub was I guess an interest (although everybody who loves it don't ever seem to talk about it as an online game,) and its graphics and handling was its own variety, but there wasn't anything that defined the game as a killer app IMO besides cool rain effects. If it had been an open-world or some other variety of racing system, then that could have been compelling and would have set it apart.

DriveClub was for me just not at all the game I wanted from Evolution. They gave an intense experience with MotorStorm, and they gave a similarly thrilling ride on the edge with the WRC series. Them going to paved roads was the first thing that made me question DC, and not enough about the game beyond that gave answers to what I needed to understand why I should want this game.

I hear the VR version was a great product though. And overall, the game deserves a PS5/Pro patch to serve its fans a proper upgrade, even if it just serves the legacy audience.

 

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[Fake]

Imagine what they could make with PS5.

 

[Loomy]

No, but what WAS it trying to be?

That was always the problem for me, it was just a different style of a circuit racer for a console which had the definitive circuit racer in GT already. The "club" part of DriveClub was I guess an interest (although everybody who loves it don't ever seem to talk about it as an online game,) and its graphics and handling was its own variety, but there wasn't anything that defined the game as a killer app IMO besides cool rain effects. If it had been an open-world or some other variety of racing system, then that could have been compelling and would have set it apart.

DriveClub was for me just not at all the game I wanted from Evolution. They gave an intense experience with MotorStorm, and they gave a similarly thrilling ride on the edge with the WRC series. Them going to paved roads was the first thing that made me question DC, and not enough about the game beyond that gave answers to what I needed to understand why I should want this game.

I hear the VR version was a great product though. And overall, the game deserves a PS5/Pro patch to serve its fans a proper upgrade, even if it just serves the legacy audience.

Fair question and criticism. It's why the game and studio no longer exist.

 

[Senua]

Imagine what they could make with PS5.

Would be nuts. Heck Polyphony Digital making a from the ground up PS5 Gran Turismo would be nuts too.

 

[diffusionx]

No, but what WAS it trying to be?

That was always the problem for me, it was just a different style of a circuit racer for a console which had the definitive circuit racer in GT already. The "club" part of DriveClub was I guess an interest (although everybody who loves it don't ever seem to talk about it as an online game,) and its graphics and handling was its own variety, but there wasn't anything that defined the game as a killer app IMO besides cool rain effects. If it had been an open-world or some other variety of racing system, then that could have been compelling and would have set it apart.

DriveClub was for me just not at all the game I wanted from Evolution. They gave an intense experience with MotorStorm, and they gave a similarly thrilling ride on the edge with the WRC series. Them going to paved roads was the first thing that made me question DC, and not enough about the game beyond that gave answers to what I needed to understand why I should want this game.

I hear the VR version was a great product though. And overall, the game deserves a PS5/Pro patch to serve its fans a proper upgrade, even if it just serves the legacy audience.

It was a new PGR.

 

[Shifty1897]

I never understood the Drive club hate, to me it was one of the best looking and best playing new IP's to release in the last 15 years. Imagine what they could have done with DriveClub 2.

 

[ReBurn]

I bought it brand new on disc for $20 6 weeks after it released. It was such a disaster of a launch. DriveClub was ok, but with Evolution closing down I miss Motorstorm the most.

 

[Moriarty1889]

give us Driveclub and Motor Storm back ffs, there is almost 0 arcade racing game on PS right now.

That would be a good start as PS5 could use some more racing games other than GT. Also they need FPS as well. Killzone and Resistance were solid titles and would be a breath of fresh air today for PS5.

 

[rofif]

just 4k60 this game. It's so amazing. Seriously I got it this year and it blew me away.
These are my photomode shots. All photomode does is REALLY good anti aliasing. Still 1080p. if ps5 version was this clean...

 

[DeepEnigma]

So roughly $110m+ in today's monies.

 

[Germuso]

I just wanted a motorstorm, the BEST arcade with Burnout.

 

[CamHostage]

It was a new PGR.

Er... that's not doing much for me. As a PlayStation-primary gamer, PGR was only every 1. Sega's version of a GT, and 2. a game where you collected "kudos", which is a fun name for a prize.

I'm not here to disparage DriveClub, but for me the tragedy isn't that it isn't here anymore with sequels and support and hit status, it's that the other games in my mind which could have been made by Evolution don't exist in its place.

 

[Guardian Monkey]

Kind of hard to compare, over ten years ago. Its like saying the Gone with the Wind budget was under $4 Million.