![]() ![]() While we don't often see behind the financial curtain of AAA projects, it's likely hoped that a nine-figure price tag would result in a Metacritic score of more than 64, which is where Forspoken currently dwells. ![]() Plenty of responses are struggling to see where all that money would have gone, not least because Forspoken's reviews didn't speak to a game of that kind of quality. The following is a list of the most expensive video games ever developed, with a minimum total cost of US50 million and sorted by the total cost adjusted for inflation.Most game budgets are not disclosed, so this list is not indicative of industry trends. There's no way that game had a 100 million budget." That $100 million figure has been met with shock on Twitter(opens in new tab), with one user(opens in new tab) suggesting that "they must have accidentally added a 0. It's thought that the game's underperformance led closely to the reabsorption of its developer, Luminous Productions, back into Square Enix, and may have contributed to the departure of the publisher's president. Forspoken is scheduled for release on May 24 for PC and PlayStation 5. The discovery of Rymer's comments comes just a few days after Square Enix said that the game's sales had been "lackluster," and that its financial failings posed a "considerable risk" to its parent company. The LinkedIn account(opens in new tab) of the game's lead writer, Allison Rymer, describes Forspoken as "a fantasy AAA video game ($100,000,000+ budget) with release date set for Fall 2022" (the game's release window before its second delay). ![]() Forspoken reportedly cost more than $100 million to make. ![]()
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