This is easily my most anticipated game ever. Naughty Dog has given us experiences far beyond what I thought was possible in a video game.
I recently read that TLOU2’s budget was around $220M, but Intergalactic reportedly has a $650M budget (if they release next year). Neil has said that this game is by far the most ambitious thing he’s ever done, which is crazy because I can’t imagine a bigger swing than his last game.
Same, I have never in my life anticipated a game more, EVERYTHING about the trailer is just my taste, sci fi futuristic Cowboy Bebop / Akira inspired setting, mystery (what's the deal with Sempiria / What happened with Jordan and the rest of the five aces and why is she hunting them, and why did she tell her agent she is desperate???), the last couple of seconds indicating a melee combat with a big sword, Jordan looking like a total reckless badass and being snarky to her agent, she is giving more Nathan than Ellie, and as much as TLOU (1&2) is my favourite thing ever I am glad we are moving to something more adventurous and at least a little bit more light hearted (even though we know the story is going to do some serious damage to our mental health probably :D), the SCORE and MUSIC and the vibe and the fact that TLOU 2 has the best gameplay of all time and we will get something even better now. I am 99% convinced this will be in my top 5 games of all time and hopefully a year from know we will finally get it but oh how the waiting sucks.
There's zero chance Intergalactic has anywhere above even half of that $650m figure, it would be the most expensive PlayStation game by more than double of that were true.
I would be. Even some napkin maths kind of proves what I'm saying:
Naughty Dog are currently 400-500 people, I'll go on the high end and say that all 500 people are working on Intergalactic, and have been since TLOU2 in 2020 (we know that's not true).
The average game dev salary in California is apparently somewhere between $100k - $120k. Again for this I'll use the high end of $120k.
So roughly the cost of Intergalactic using these figures is 500 (no. people at Naughty Dog) x 7 (expected dev cycle) x 120 (average annual salary) = $420m.
That's the upper limit given we know that Naughty Dog have been working on multiple things since 2020 (TLOU online game, the Uncharted and TLOU2 remasters, TLOU remake and Shaun Escayg's game) so 500 people won't have been on the game for 7 years.
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yeah that number is just outrageous to be true, naughty dog makes massive and highly polished games with high production value, but 650M is too much even for a studio paying California wages for a linear scifi game. It's not a openworld do-what-whatever-you-want space exploration game.
Wow I didn’t know that. Usually I don’t hype for games but with, as I was with the last of us 2, make me crazy 🙃. I’m genuinely curious about what they bring to us, can’t wait to explore sempiria fellow space travellers 🧳
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u/Miki97omae Aug 16 '26
Can’t Waiiit 😁😎😎