Gosh that’s huge and is a big risk!

I loved the first Gears of War and am looking forward to repoaying it on my Steam Deck once my backlog is cleared, but I feel like the franchise is loosing traction.

As long as I’m not the one paying the 400 millions, I don’t really care, but such an amount for such a game sounds unhealthy.

400 million is INSANE. Gears of War is a fairly known franchise but it's not nearly popular enough to justify such a huge budget, especially when it's a console exclusive. Battlefield 6 reportedly targeted a $400 million budget, but that's battlefield. Microsoft has to be one of the worst managed companies in the world to keep running Xbox to the ground like this.

390 million on marketing and upper management bonuses and 10 million on the game itself. Probably.

How much money is spent on a game and how much time no longer impresses me. It’s how the time and money is spent. Much can be wasted both on dead ends and bad ideas.

I remember Heart Of Darkness being advertised as a game 5 years in the making. From what I remember it didn’t sell well. And of course there is also Duke Nukem Forever.

Hope the game is a success last thing I want to see is another large studio with layoffs

If true, they'd have to sell a lot more than 5.7 million copies in consideration of non-Xbox digital store sales cuts and physical retailer logistics, currency conversions and regional pricing differences, payment processor fees, discounts/gamepass, taxes, etc. If the budget is $400 million, it'd have to be the best selling Gears game ever probably by a substantial margin to break even with a $400 million budget

Bet they are going to shutter the studio when they can’t recoup.

Wow! This is ridiculous. Invest in more games like “Pentiment” instead.

Without the Playstation platform, this will be hard to reach goal. I guess as a prime XBOX game it will sell well on the console at least. And Steam... yeah that's a goldmine. I think the budget ballooned like this, with the Playstation in mind. And Asha surely knows this and will judge accordingly.