It took US$ 44 million to make God of War III

If games weren’t so pricey, we’d be cleaning out store shelves on a weekly basis. Unfortunately, that’s not happening any time soon…or ever. Fact is, games took a lot of money to make, and that’s going to ring up once you take a game up to the counter. If you’re still living under a rock thinking developers just code all year and burn CDs, wake up and smell the dollar sign – it took US$ 44 million to make God of War III.

If games weren’t so pricey, we’d be cleaning out store shelves on a weekly basis. Unfortunately, that’s not happening any time soon…or ever. Fact is, games took a lot of money to make, and that’s going to ring up once you take a game up to the counter. If you’re still living under a rock thinking developers just code all year and burn CDs, wake up and smell the dollar sign – it took US$ 44 million to make God of War III.

That’s according to John Hight of Sony Santa Monica. Surprised? Well, the average current-gen game takes US$ 18-28 million to make, but considering Sony wants to take this one all the way up to Olympus, that’s pretty much in the realm of expected. After all, it took a much larger US$ 60 million to make Gran Turismo 5.

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