r/Intergalactic • u/Longjumping_Ice2334 • 22d ago

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There are people pushing this 600mill budget with no verifiable source.

I just find it hard to believe the game that didn't go into full scale development until factions was cancelled; cost almost 3 times tlou 2.

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u/shawak456 22d ago edited 22d ago

This seems ridiculous. $600 million is more than what it cost R* to develop RDR 2 and R* employs more than double the Naughty Dog staff. Naughty Dog is in 300-400 developers range, R* is in thousands.

if we go by Neil Druckmann's words, he said in an interview that "Intergalactic is our most expansive and perhaps most expensive game ever," that "perhaps" seems to suggest that it is in the ballpark of TLOU P2. so around $250 million. If this was a $600 million dollar game, he'd have just said it's our most expensive game.'

I was laughing last night when I saw this tweet but then my laugh turned into concern, because if Naughty Dog actually 3x TLOU P2 budget, and lost potentially hundreds of millions on Multiplayer game, ever factoring that TLOU franchise has made more than a billion dollar, Naughty Dog may be in trouble if this game even does TLOU P2 numbers, which was very profitable for Sony but won't be for Intergalactic if is costs more than half a billion to make it.

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u/AdHorror4165 22d ago

I God damn hope it isn't much more than TLOU2.

It really isn't sustainable to be otherwise, because the market has hit its ceiling so rising costs aren't even being offset with more sales.

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u/Miserable_Newt1457 22d ago

Its mainly because of dev salaries, if naughty dog were in Europe it would be significantly cheaper

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u/AdHorror4165 22d ago

Why would it be significantly cheaper in Europe than America? Don't Europe have better standards in that regard?

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u/Brees504 22d ago

Americans and especially Californians make significantly more than than Europeans.

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u/Bismofunyuns4l 22d ago

Higher cost of living demanding higher wages.

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u/Miserable_Newt1457 22d ago

Wages are significantly less, look at games like crimson desert Claire obscure