What the FUCK do you mean this game cost $2 billion to make?How can you possibly spend this much money on a fucking video game. Let's assume that there are 1000 employees working on the game (650 of Rockstar North and the rest from the other subsidiaries) that are all being paid $100,000 a year have been working on the game since the release of GTA V, 13 years ago.Even with that extremely unlikely scenario, that's still $1.3 billion spent. Where's the other $700 fucking million? If they all started working on GTA VI full-time after the release of RDR2 then that's $800 million. Where did the other $1.2 billion go??
>Where did the other $1.2 billion go??cocaine and whoresare you new to the industry?
>>741673664That still isn't as much as Sony effectively spent on Marathon
>why is a game being designed in a broken engine by 1200 Indians so expensive
>>741673664At least half of it will probably be advertising and another 500 mill would be lost through corruption.
>>741673664>Let's assume that there are 1000 employeesThere is way more than that
I know it won't, but I desperately hope the game flops and finalizes the next major videogame crash. I want all these pointlessly bloated AAA developers churning out garbage to fuck off and die.
It's money laundering and embezzling.
There is 6000 developers working on GTA6
>>741673936Is advertising a money laundering scheme?They've made 2 trailers to advertise the game and the rest of the work has been done for them by the internet due to sheer anticipation and hype.They literally don't have to do anything between now and release except maybe drop an actual gameplay video to assure everyone.
anyone else feeling a cyberpunk-tier disaster here?
rapper negro jamal costs 5 million just to say his own name in the game.
HOW THE FUCK WAS NINTENDO ABLE TO MAKE STARFOX HAPPEN ON THE SNES WITHOUT SPENDING 2 BILLION DOLLARS BACK THEN??
>>741674283Argonaut were coding voodoo wizards
A lot of programming, the Claude bill is very high sir
>>741675497>4350 vs 1615The India count is inflated anyways since there a like a billion of them over there and they work for pennies.
>>741673664Gay and woke shit
>>741673664>Let's assume that there are 1000 employees working on the game (650 of Rockstar North and the rest from the other subsidiaries)anon R* is a 5000 employee company
>>741673664> 16 pallets of money out the back of a warehousewym it cost 2 billion? why are you asking about 1.6 billion? it only cost 700 million? just lend us 200 million and forget the 500 million and you owe us still.
>>741677021literally this. this is going to be the largest video game flop in video game history next to ET.
The game is going to sell well but not as well as they're expecting it toIt's a meme more than actual anticipation
>>741679779They dont care about initial sales as much as they care about shark cards and 5m for the paypigs
this game is gonna be a massive disappointment
>>741673664>s assume that there are 1000 employees working on the gamekek are you retarded?
>>741674149They make murals and shit for their advertising around release.
>>741673664It's something worth investing in. They were making billions annually, they'll make it back. If not the first week. When the online drops.
>>741674161Rockstar has never had a buggy release. They're actually very thorough developers and this is their first game with a largely new team at the helm. I'm more interested in the sound department without LazLow as the engineer.
>>741673664George Floyd died of fent
UNLIMITED JEET WORKS
>>741679779I really don't know why you people think people aren't seriously anticipating the release. This is the kind of shit is going to get people that stopped playing or don't play games to play games. This may even be the most anticipated piece of media.
>>741673664rights to music
Trump retracted pedophile names, he knows who they are and let them walk
>>741673664HAHAHAHAHA WE DID GOOD SCAMMING TWO BILLION IS OURS INDIA #1
>>741673664It will be the best selling game of all time
>>741680574
>>741680574true since browns are a majority now
>>741673664>Where's the other $700 fucking million?Marketing
>>7416805432020 super world power
>>741673664Elon Musk should buy Xbox and make a $2 Trillion GTA-like set on a Martian colony. It will be the biggest game ever. 420 69 lads!
>>741680574The only games that sold more copies that sold more copies than GTAV are Tetris and Minecraft. So personal opinion is somewhat irrelevant if we want to talk "flop" this shit is flop-proof. I even think it will be good because Rockstar has not made a bad game yet, no matter how outnof control GTAO got. This could only potentially be their first bad game in a long time if anything.
>>741680605If you sit this one out you will be responsible for them taking their lives.Buy the game chud or the blood is on your penis
>>741680701Red Faction Guerilla already exists
>>741680742>GuerillaR.I.P. Harambe
>>741680701Something like High On Life but GTA could be cool. Make like an Osmosis Jones game but like Sleeping Dogs.
>>741675497RIP GTA
/v/ - India
>Marvel Studios, which reportedly spent $4.9 million to license Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" for the movie Thor: Ragnarok. Including marketing materials like trailers, the total deal was worth $5 millionMusic licenses are expensive How many songs in GTA?
>>741680969>put 10 Led Zeppelin songs on the game>budgets increases by half a billion
>>741680969Shit should be free to use after 20 years.
>>741673876>bloodelf.png
>>741680507Day one sales are going to be astronomical no matter what, but depending on how jeeted the game is it could go south for them very fast.>>741679973>shark cards and 5m for the paypigsThe online aspect here is a complete mystery, and there's no guarantee its going to see the same numbers as GTAO. Especially given R*s recent track record with online content.
>>741673664Like all the other virtue signalling western companies, Rockstar is 80% embezzling and mismanagement, and 20% productivity.
wtf 2 billion i thought this shit was supposed to be like 80 bucks
>>741681212Are they still alive? I can understand the band saying that movies can't use their music without their permission and then the movies paying 5 million to get them to change their minds. Cause I can see a band not wanting their music connected to cale shit
>>741674149its always 'marketing' when tweets and youtube are free
IZZAT TAX
>>741681446>going to be astronomical no matter what,Less than 100 million people own a PS5
>>741681587That’s a good point, at least permission should be needed, and that turns into a bribe.
>>741681521upvoted
5000 employees13 years devRound down massively and say $50,000 a year x 10 x 5000$500 millionDozens of songs to licence$100 million Celebrity voice acting $200 million Marketing $600 million
>>741681670Thats more units than the ps3 had when 5 launched unless I'm mistaken.
>>741679779They're breaking even on day 1 so I don't think they're too worried. Imagine having something in your hand that literally cannot fail
>>74168201620 million on day 1 at $100 a game?
>>741673664the ceo and PR deparment. in fact the employees get more like $60k a year and the rest goes to marketing
>>741673664This game is costing them 2 billion to make, and they are willing to risk it all with fag parades????
>>741682348they're mentally ill
>>741673664100k is an extremely low salary
>>741673664So they HAVE to charge a million dollars for a single game license for you to check against their servers every time you play
>>741682016Not day 1, but they developed it on passive income from V. They’re making money even if they never release VI
>>741682348They are banking on GTA online micro transactions. It will work btw
>>741680063It will be shit but the power of rockstars money will be enough to shift public view to it being the best thing ever
>>741673664It didn't
that can't be right, they would have to sell 35 million copies at full price to break even.
>>741682348>with fag parades?it's funny this is the only place journalists were able to trick with this dumb made up shit
>>741681446What recent track record? They seem to be pushing out content for Online regularly.
>>741683223>It will work btwR* is phenomenally incompetent when it comes to online implementation. There's a real chance it won't.
>>741673664>>741680574I CAN'T AFFORD THAT
>>741673664I can't afford a $2billion game!
>>741682147GTA 5 did 10 million, there's no reason to think this can't do 20 especially given how much more mainstream gaming is compared to early 2010s. Inflation adjusted probably comes out to be about the same on game price
>>741683381GTAO is a horribly mismanaged Frankensteins monster of a "game". It's massive success is due to a number of factors but R* most certainly isn't one of them. The trash fire that was RDR2s online is a perfect example of how bafflingly incompetent they can be with this stuff. Now there's not guarantee that 6 will fully capture the GTAO playerbase, and there's a VERY real chance they fuck it up hard enough to kill it in the crib.
It's going to make them way more than that. That's the fucking crazy part.
>>741673664Just let go of GTA anon. It died with Online. GTA IV was the last good GTA game
>>741680725None of the original developers are involved in VI and its a jew mandated product made for Take Two suits, do you really expect it to be a good game?
>>741673664>2 billion dollars graphics, BTWLMAO!
>>741683759>there's not guarantee that 6 will fully capture the GTAO playerbase,Yeah no as a person with an embarrassing amount of time in GTAO, I am willing to abandon it in a moments notice for a game that has better core shooting and driving and no fucking rocket bikes
>>741684042on that Yakuza PS2 pack
>>7416736642 billion? I'll just wait for it to go on sale.
>>741684078>I am willing to abandon it in a moments notice for a game that has better core shooting and driving You are INCREDIBLY optimistic for a GTAO player.
God please let this game flop
>>741684210brother the shooting in RDR2 alone was better than GTAV. You can't even fucking crouch or swap shoulders in GTAV. These are very low bars we're talking here
>>741673664Holy shit this game just CANNOT turn a profit:$2 billion in development$5 billion in franchising$3 billion in advertisingThat makes $10 billion and we know you need 5 times your total cost of production to start making a profit so they need $50 FUCKING billions to JUST START making a profit. Let that sink in. Imagine the game releases for a, let's go wild $150 retail they will need to sell333. 333 MILLION copies, more than FUCKING Minecraft and only second to FUCKING TETRIS. So it would need to be THE SECOND MOST SOLD VIDEO GAME IN HISTORY.
no game should cost more than a billion to makeno AAA game needs more than 200 developers and that's being generousThere's nothing a GTA game could possibly innovate on with all that money except for a ludicrous amount of feature creep that would make San Andreas blush from the sheer amount of itGTA6 will fail to meet expectations unless a sexy woman can jump out of the screen and start sucking me offIt took so long to make that consoles became more expensive by the time it was ready, making it even harder to buy
>>741681597You're a dumb nigger
>>741684424>$2 billion in development>$5 billion in franchising>$3 billion in advertisingLiterally just pulling these numbers out your ass
Man i never wanted an game to flop harder solely so we have an ET level event.
>>741684351>These are very low bars we're talking hereOkay I'm starting to think you've never actually played GTAO.
>>741683502I feel like gaming was more mainstream back when gta5 came out. We still had bro gamers and console wars. Mainstream gaming is more of a meme now
>>7416844984chan rule: it is up to you to debunk that otherwise its true.
>>741684498get this man a job in ai financing
>>741684528I'm starting to think you don't even understand the conversation. I played enough of it to know it's flaws and to understand what they made after with RDR2 and the leaks that it's already a noticeable improvement
>>741684424never seen a good post with this character on it
>>741684424This game will be profitable from pre-orders alone. Screencap this.
>>741684609I've never seen a good post
>>741674149uh, the internet shills and trained AI bots that post in 4chinz?? a modern game's GOT to have budget for that stuff
>>741673664>2 billion to make >somehow looks worse than rdr2 FUCKING HOW?!
>>741683223gtaV got lucky with 5 gens of consoles, they'll have some heavy lifting this time
>>741681930that is correct, but back then you had more 360 consoles than ps3s.
>>741673664Investors are fucking cancer.
>>741684605Anon, you are making the conscious choice to trust R* in any matters relating to online. I can only assume at this point, your time playing GTAO has resulted in you developing Stockholm syndrome.
>>741684725It's a game made for jews to suck money off from, management likely ate most of it
Rockstar is one of the few devs that cannot make games that flop like Bethesda, Starfield is the best selling game of the generation despite all the hate on it.
>>741684532It was mainstream but after streamers and social media becoming 10x bigger it's quite different
>>741684609How many times have you seen that character?
>>741673664Have you not heard of scams? Money laundering? Embezzling?The money was stolen & we're getting GTA 5.5 for $200 a piece. Unoptimized & made by AI-using jeets -__-
>>741684809I like the overall structure of GTAO. Having a crime empire and making money is comfy it's the minute to minute gameplay I have an issue with. A lot of it is driving and shooting obviously and when that stuff is just alright it feels terrible the more you play it. From the leaks alone the shooting feels punchier and more fluid. I just have to see how cars handle
>>741673664Story probably will have the bitch cheat on him and them getting back together.
>>741680574God I hope it eats shit.
>>741673664 Because Rockstar is made up of American devs and they suck up so much cost.
>>741685080i dont keep track because im not an insane person but i vaguely recall she was associated with an actual schizo so i shitpost every time i see her
>>741684424Now factor in the bulk of the game's sales from shark cards and other MTX.
>>741685206GTA was always a british product, however.
>>741685476Around $1.2 billion.
>>741684860>starfield is the best selling game of a generationPost sales>R* has never released a flopThe demasters and RDO
>>741681140>mathletKids these days.
>>741680387>their first game with a largely new team at the helmThis doesn't ring alarms for you nigger? Even Dan Houser left
>>741680725RDR2 was bad
>>741673664Accounting magic. You say it costs 2 billions so you don't pay taxes but turns out a huge part of it was paying just a few people.
>>741687729>largely new teamit’s not retard 99% of the same staff is there. like 5 guys out of a team of 5000 is not a “largely new team”
>>741686931>The demastersnot by R* devs just published by them
>>741686931RDO wasn't a flop, they just dropped support for it because they are greedy cunts.
>>741688187>>R* greedy>pondering.jpgCould it be that R* dropped support for RDO 'cause it wasn't generating enough revenue. That would make it a flop, no?
>>741689947Flop implies loss, it got shuttered because it was not as profitable as GTAO, much like how they shuttered all possible single player projects in the last decade because it'd not be as profitable as GTAO. R* died in 2015
Have in mind you have to count everyone working at the company, that means the millionaire wages from the suits, plus also the advertising costs, which as a rule of thumb it's usually the same as production/dev costs, so it doubles the costs.
music alone probably cost 500, record labels are that jewish
>>741690119Remember when GTA3 had all original songs? Change is probably a better song than the slop they put in modern GTAs
