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"The Getaway costs well over £5 million !"

Full details below, looks like pre Xmas release could be doubtful.....

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Sony has confirmed that its triple A crime-busting PS2 title has cost at least £5 million, easily making it the most expensive European game ever made.

"Sony today admitted that The Getaway, the jewel in the crown of its European PlayStation 2 development arm, has cost at least £5 million so far. While rumour suggests the actual figure is far higher - some estimates put it at well over £10 million - the official line still makes The Getaway far and away the most expensive game ever made in Europe.
Fresh rumours have also arisen of a new slip, with the potential to put the game past the all-important Christmas 2002 watershed.

The Getaway follows Mark Hammond, an ex-gangster attempting to clear his name for the murder of his wife and rescue his kidnapped child. The title has been the centre of controversy since its inception three years ago, especially when spiralling costs were met with the release of the monstrously successful Grand Theft Auto 3 last year; the games are both crime titles based on walking, shooting and driving.

So, it's pricey and it may still be late. Shocker. Watch this space for more on the title as we approach The Getaway's supposed November release date."

~Res~ wrote:
> didn't shenmue cost shedloads to make?

At the time It wa the most expensive video game ever made. I have been told that it cost 5 million. Of course It wasn't gonna be the most expensive for ever, things catch up.

didn't shenmue cost shedloads to make?

but early screen shots made me decide to get a PS2 a few months after launch

aint sure about getting this game, VIce city will be well and truly settled by then

5 mill eh....spose it gonna cost £45 then

Films cost £100 million because a certain few things like, paying actors, and a number of people to work on production, sets and clothes, flying to film in different locations, special effects and pyrotechnics, as well as all of the lighting and camera equipment to film. Besides, not all films cost that much anyway, only the over priced films like pearl harbour, some films only cost £20 million to make.

As for games, well the only thing that really costs money are, the team who makes the game, which can just be under 20 people, the computer equipment and software to make the games, the voice and motion capture artists, who usually won't be high profile, so will won't cost as much to employ, and then marketing and packaging the game. That wouldn’t cost 100 million.

Maybe you heard wrong, it's very doubtful that just one game cost that much to develop, it is possible that the entire Final Fantasy series has cost that much, but not just one of them. Besides, you think squaresoft would continue to make games if they cost that much to make? Of course they bloody wouldn't, otherwise they'd spent a billion on the series already.

It does seam high, could the TV be lying to us? Although they recon the computer games market is worth more than the film market, so if a film costs £100 Million to make why not a game?

The cost of games developments where being descussed here, but I don't recall anyone saying they buy games solely on how much the devlopers have spent devloping them. That would be stupid, and I also doubt it cost 100 million to make one of the Final Fantasy games, too high.

money has nothing to do with it. Im sure it will be the one of the besty games ever, if it plays as good as it looks.

But how much a game cost to make is one of the worst reasons to go on about how good a game is EVER.

If i went and spent £20 on a tv channel and then went and got another one for £10 does that mean the first one would be better? no.

It has just as much chance of being as rubbish or as good as the other.

One of the Final Fantasy games and there where a few others as well. There is a program on bravo called gamepad and they had a fetcher about it.