Ballooning budgets led to change of business model Gears of War 4 would have cost more than $100 million to make, Epic Games estimated.
“The very first Gears of War game cost $12 million to develop, and it made about $100 million in revenue,” he said.
2011’s Gears of War 3 cost “about four or five times more” to make than Gears of War did in 2006.
According to Sweeney, the way Epic Games was going, the fourth game would have boasted a more than $100 million budget.
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