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The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Having just this week seen a bunch of game devs discussing on twitter what it costs to make a AAA game nowadays and how it couldn't be done for under a hundred million dollars, this article [gamespot.com] tells me that the guys at CD Projekt Red really knew their business when building The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt [thewitcher.com].

CD Projekt Red has announced exactly how much money it spent to make the celebrated open-world role-playing game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Speaking during CD Projekt Red's latest financial briefing, the English translation of which was published today, CEO Adam Kicinski revealed the game's total budget--including development and marketing costs--as 306 million złoty or about $81 million USD.

By comparison, Star Wars: The Old Republic--a MMO--reportedly cost $200 million to develop. Meanwhile, Rockstar Games supposedly spent $265 million to develop and market Grand Theft Auto V. These figures, however, are unconfirmed, while The Witcher 3's budget number comes directly from the source.

Now if they'd just get the Linux port out the door, I could get down to playing it instead of reading articles about it while impatiently waiting.

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