And they are. An LA Times report on the game’s launch says the game “cost $US40 million to $US50 million to produce”. That’s, uh, a lot. Gran Turismo 5 has cost $US60 million so far, but that game’s been in development for five years, not the two it took to get MW2 out the door.
So, yes, if you were wondering how Activision got so much detail, Fiddy and Keith David into the game, that’s how they did it. By throwing money at it.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 video game gets Hollywood-scale launch [LA Times]
Gerby
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 4:00 PMWell if MW2 cost 40m to make I guess Dragon Age Origin cost 400m to make seeing as MW2 is just a 4hour campaign FPS with some copy pasted MP (if you can even call it MP on PC lol)
Ben Ford
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:03 PMHaters gonna hate.
Khuntza
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:26 PM…and fanbois will always defend the object of their desire.. even if it is broken and over rated..
Creeping Jesus
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 10:58 AMOh no you did ent!
SemiConscious
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 4:51 PMfuck thats a lot of monies to punch out more sub par games…. how long untill this degerated into
(lube up now cause here it comes)
MW3 (AKA MW10)
then
MW11
anyone?
plmko
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:03 PMI reckon 2/3 of the cost was allocated to the marketing team.
Milali
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:52 PMI understand why its that high and no way is that including marketing.
marketing alone with be that much
Damien
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:48 PMAnd the rest
Alex
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:03 PMMust have cost a lot of money to reuse the same engine from Call of Duty 4.
wallet
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:05 PM$15-20 of that went to the guys doing the PC port
Stinky
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 8:06 PMSure are a lot of dudes hanging around here who don’t like video games…
HappyKamper
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 3:40 AMI can’t believe ppl are bagging COD MP. It’s some of the best MP I’ve ever played. COD4 and GTA4 are the only MP games I’ve gone back to after not playing for several months.
Nick
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 6:14 PMYou only like it because youre a fanboy whos played nothing else decent in their life.
Ollycity
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 9:23 PMI just finished it.
Big frickin D.
Don’t call me a hater, but I guess the hype, and the unbalanced multiplayer might’ve ruined it. I’ll keep playing, i hope it gets better.
All I’m saying is when you’ve never played a COD the multiplayer’s shite.
Jo
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:28 AMTotally agree, unless you do nothing else with your spare time the MP is just a lesson in being sniped by campers.
Only for the hardcore 1337 – no place in it for someone who just wants a bit of fun.
Brett C
Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:38 PMFor that price I would’ve liked a few more hours of Single Player, as it is it feels like it needs a epilogue or to finish out the story. It feels like it’s been intentionally left hanging for the inevitable sequel. Pissed me off in Halo 2, pissed me off here.
Sabmac
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 3:19 AMYeah I like how the whole goal of the game is to kill a guy who doesn’t seem to exist in the last 5 levels.
Heath K
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:48 PMthats not a big budjet at all.. every ones getting conned by Activision MW2 is just reselling the same Quake3 based shit they have been selling for years.
Props to the Editors at IW.. but seriously.. MW2 is a OLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD style of game for dumb people
GTA4 cost like 150million
of the 50million i bet you activision spent 40million on marketing and only 10million to make the game..
ITS 2 years of IW on level editors THATS NOT $$
LordLeckie
Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 8:45 PMSomething tells me the vast majority of that was spent on team leads and bonus’ for the head honchos rather than the game itself.
Painkiller
Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 5:09 PMSingle Player = 5 Hrs
Game cost = 50 million to make
That is 10 million an hour of campaign
Or $166,666 per minute.
For that kinda cash it could of been a better game. IW blows