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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is development spend + marketing spend + post-launch DLC spend. Even forking the same code base, you can see where the money goes. The campaigns are original each time, new map design requires time and money, etc. In the past 5 years, there has probably been a CoD game that cost $1B to make, as this data is from 2020.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    If it includes marketing then yeah, it's mostly that. $700M is an absolutely absurd astronomical amount for what CoD is, on a purely development basis.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I usually hear of marketing spend matching development cost, so it's probably closer to 50/50. The documents that these figures came from didn't itemize them, but it's notable that 2020 is when current gen consoles came out, and more fidelity usually correlates to more time and money to make the assets.

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