Nobody needs reminding of how precarious the games industry is right now, since layoffs and studio closures continue to happen with horrendous regularity. A large contributor to these problems is rising budgets, as figures are purportedly in the hundreds of millions for many triple-A games, and rising still.
Bloomberg's Jason Schreier provides some insight, based on his extensive interviews and reporting within the industry. "Exact budgets of video game productions can be tough to corroborate but the numbers I've heard floating around AAA game dev these days are $300 million or more," he says on Bluesky.
