Video game budgets are soaring, with Gears of War: E-Day reported to cost over $400 million. To break even, the game might need to sell around 5.7 million copies, a significant challenge.
400 million is INSANE. Gears of War is a fairly known franchise but it’s not nearly popular enough to justify such a huge budget, especially when it’s a console exclusive. Battlefield 6 reportedly targeted a $400 million budget, but that’s battlefield. Microsoft has to be one of the worst managed companies in the world to keep running Xbox to the ground like this.
400 million is INSANE. Gears of War is a fairly known franchise but it’s not nearly popular enough to justify such a huge budget, especially when it’s a console exclusive. Battlefield 6 reportedly targeted a $400 million budget, but that’s battlefield. Microsoft has to be one of the worst managed companies in the world to keep running Xbox to the ground like this.
It’s not console exclusive. It’s also going to be available on Steam.
Console exclusive as in they’re not putting it on PS5/Switch 2