It will be hundreds of millions of dollars!The mystery of the cost of unveiling 3A masterpieces in the circle

2025-02-06 20:06:00|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

Why do game companies develop a game of hundreds of millions of funds?

I have been working in the game industry for more than ten years, and I have been doing AAA games abroad. Thereforechat.

Clean up with you a few misunderstandings, and start gradually:

1. Does developing a game need hundreds of millions of funds?

Generally not needed.Note that the main question is development. If it is purely developed, most games cannot have such a high cost.In addition, this article is about US dollars.

2. What about GTA?

special case!And the reason for the special case is because people know that this game is stable, so you can smash so much money.

3. So why can GTA spend so much money?

Time+manpower.That's it.GTA5 spent a total of 5 years, and the team added thousands of people.Such a large scale can only be done with rock stars.After using so many people, it took so long, and the development tools were extremely stable. People were constantly adding content, so there were countless details.These details are piled up by X time = money.

4. How much is the development cost of a AAA game?

In general, the cost must be controlled below 50m, that is, 50 million.More than this number, it is difficult to make a profit.So what is the concept of 50 million? It is the one -and -a -half -year small team Pre Communication, plus the one -and -a -half -year large team product.For more than two years, the entire product is very risky because it is huge.

5. So why are you kneeling more than 50 million?

Here we have to discuss the profit of the game.(Traditional games, do not match the domestic online game mobile games.) A game price is 60 knives, which really goes to the development of the developer's hands, which is 20 knives (the rest are all retailers, distributed, logistics, etc.When the exploitation is gone), if it is the publisher's own studio, it may reach 25 knives.So conservative calculation, how many sets of 50 million games need to be sold for flattening? Answer: 2.5 million sets.Is it difficult to sell this number? It can only be said that it is not easy.Nowadays, the game market is fighting the value of the product. Only the top ten of the good do can make money. Other games will either flatten or lose to death.Then why are you still doing AAA? Because the top ten people have basically earned the money in the entire market, and divided into each game, the profit is much larger than ten years ago, so everyone has desperately made the quality.Go in the top ten.This is a virtuous circle.

6. I just mentioned the small team prealuction, the big team product, what does it mean?

The production of a game was developed by the small team at first. This scale is generally killed by No. 50.These people just need to figure out what the game is, how to play, how to do, and so on. This stage is painful, but it is also very fulfilled.It is proved that after this game can be achieved, the product is completely rolled out. At this time, it is only to recruit people according to the cost budget, determine the scale, etc.In general, make a AAA game, and the product is at least 150.These people need to completely complete the prototype of the game for nearly two years. Of course, overtime is essential.

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