>final fantasy 7 costed around 45 million both development and marketing combined
>shenmue even more so (in the 47~70 million range)
>but… I thought video game development didn’t consume that much human and capital resources back then? am I missing something?

Look at Shenmue and FFVII asset wise and compare them to other games of their day, they were exceptions, not the rule back then

FF7 and Shenmue were the most expensive games of their time.

Those games were cutting edge and made from scratch. Games today use 15+ year old programming and cgi techniques plugged into the proprietary engine they've licensed. It's a big difference; Square pumped money back into the company to do actual innovation. Spirits Within might've sucked but it was a gigantic flex that will never be topped.

That's peanuts compared to modern games. You couldn't even make an indie game with 70 million.

>costed

>>11887986
Professional games today are more expensive than ever and cripple the shit out of companies, what the fuck are you talking about?

>>11887943 (OP)
even adjusting for inflation 45 million in today money is only about 90million, for an extremely popular and influential game. shenmue was the literal best game graphically the year it came out and would cost at max about 150million. even if you personally don't care for these games, people have enjoyed them for decades now over various re-releases and remasters.

concord, a follow the leader hero shooter that looks ugly, innovates nothing and didn't even launch with that many characters was 400 million dollars down the drain because the game got shelved instantly and you literally cant play it anymore. Most of that money didn't even go into the game just paying people working on this shit for nearly a decade and marketing and cross promotional deals that never went anywhere because the game itself was a piece of shit.

>banks on shenmue saving sega
>no multiplayer

japs are fucking retards (I love shenmue)

>costed
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