The Wildest Video Game Budgets Can't Hold A Candle To GTA 6
Grand Theft Auto VI is estimated to have a development budget exceeding $1 billion, potentially making it the most expensive entertainment product in history. The rising costs are attributed to long development cycles and the massive scale of modern open-world game production.
Why it matters
Illustrates the shifting economic landscape of the entertainment industry, where video games now command budgets and production complexities that rival or exceed major Hollywood films.
The latest Grand Theft Auto is thought to be the most expensive entertainment product ever made.
Bangla press/Shutterstock When you think about the most expensive entertainment productions ever created, video games are likely not the first thing that comes to mind. Hollywood studios routinely spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a single movie that can have a multi-year production schedule. But video games have actually become just as expensive to produce of late, sometimes even surpassing major films. Case in point: Grand Theft Auto VI looks set to become the most expensive game ever created.
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