Why is video game development so expensive? Why does it take

shit man, you're really on to something here

the only reason video games are so expensive to make is because they haven't let you take a crack it, i guess

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>10 man studios
my man, every AAA developer consists of at least a hundred employees working on a single project, sometimes several hundreds
>GTAV had far over 1000 people work on it

>>378844086
Not to mention all the outsourcing and marketing garbage going on.

>>378843729
>tea&noms
These guys are supposed to be professional?

In modern games marketing costs a lot more than the making of the game itself. The marketing budgets can be at hundred millions these days.

You forgot the fact that most studios use a non in house graphics/physics engine we cost money to buy the license to use it for commercial use.
Mocap actors cost money
VA cost money
Q&A cost money
NEED to hire artists and 3D modelers for concept art and professional quality 3d assets.
Need a writer.
Need a Sound design team.
Etc.
This is all before shit like an ad campaign too.
Theres a reason why game dev is soo expensive. Its because modern AAA games are Hollywood productions with programmers thrown in.

>>378844289

Have you ever worked in an office environment you goddamn neet?

Budget allocations

Programmers: 5%
Artists: 5%
Testers: 2%
Marketing: 88%

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>>378844203
>GTAV
>development: 137 million
>marketing: 128 million

>CoD:MW2
>development: 50 million
>marketing: 200 fucking million

>>378843729
Are you retarded?
Do you understand that 10 team will take 20 years to make Witcher 3?

>>378844696
Bad marketing can kill you today when everyone is spending money in marketing
If you don't have your message reach your target audience fast enough and rely purely on word of mouth you will never reach your potential maximum sales and will have a small start
Being successful and selling well also makes your more successful because people have
>If everyone is buying it I shouldn't miss out
Mentality

>>378844541
>testers: 2%
Confirming for not knowing shit about the industry. QA is way below 1% of total expenditure.

Fun fact in my company (we're way about ~500 employees for our Western Operations), QA and Customer Service costs are so small that you cannot see the fucking line on our cumulative costs chart. Even the annual employees bonuses (when all added together) are costing the company more money than ALL the wages of QA/CS added up.

>>378844456
>let epic memes painted on the walls
A redditor's wet dream

>>378845236
let epic memes painted on the walls do what?

Truth is it doesnt and it has never been more easier and affordable to develop